Saint Clement Aqueduct. The engineer Henri de Launay Pilot was inspired by the Pont du Gard, to build the aqueduct in 1754 San Clemente. This has allowed the arrival of water from the springs of the city of Saint-Clément. Montpellier in French and officially Montpelhièr in Occitan, is a city in southern France, capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon and Hérault department. It is crossed by two rivers: the Lez east, and west Mosson. According to data from 2009 had a population of 257,092 inhabitants, that if you included the metropolitan area totaled 516 360 inhabitants (2008) inhabitants. In 2007 was the eighth largest city in France for its intramural population, is one of the few among cities over 100,000 inhabitants, whose numbers have steadily increased over the last fifty years, during which its population has doubled. The city is an important industrial center, which include textiles, metal products, food, like wine, publishing and chemicals.