In the 16th century it was called the Narbonne road. It was also wher the Bédarieux road came into the 'Faubourg de la lauze' (15th and 16th century toponymy). The medevial poorhouse was situated at the foot of the castle in front of the pot-hole known as the 'Gourp de la Tournasse'. The surface of river pebbles is no earlier than 16th century.