Le Couvent d'Hérépian was completed in the 1640s to house the nuns of the church of St. Martial, an offshoot of the Abbaye de Villemagne. A superb example of early 17th century architecture, vaulted ceilings and stone predominate throughout and many other original features remain intact.

During the second world war, the Resistance movement of the
Haut Languedoc met frequently to plan operations in the basement of Le Couvent
before retreating to the forests of the Languedoc and their headquarters at Douch,
a stone hamlet of less than 20 houses a 30 minute drive from Hérépian

During the French Revolution, with the Catholic Church outlawed, the local community would gather clandestinely in the basement of the convent to attend mass. Later during the Second World War, resistance fighters would meet in the same basement to plan operations before returning to the cover of the dense forests of the High Languedoc. Uninhabited since the 1970s, the convent remained the property of the Bishopric of Montpellier until acquired by Garrigae in 2003, whose sensitive restoration once again brought life back into this historic place.