With regards to Prehistory Mane is a site dotted with remains, aqueducts and necropoles. In addition to this, most toponymists believe that the locality drew its name from the Roman goddess Mana Genita, who presided over funerals.

In Mane, you will be amazed by the multitude of cobbled streets and alleyways, façades and old doors, fountains, pontons and other architectural curiosities such as the Medieval market, all built with all the know-how of master masons.

Mane was also rebellious and, for example, in 1851, the departmental uprising against Louis Napoleon Bonaparte’s coup d’état started in the middle of the village.

The most famous of its children, Henri Laugier, who was vice-secretary general of UNO, co-drafter of the charter of Human rights and chairman of CNRS, must be somewhere watching over the fate of his village.