Editing Perpignan (section)

==Notable people linked to Perpignan==
* [[Paul Alday]] (c.1763–1835), violinist, composer, and music publisher
* [[Christian Andreu]] (born 1976), guitarist 
* [[Anna Maria Antigó]] (1602–1676), abbess
* [[François Arago]] (1786–1853), physicist, astronomer, and liberal politician
* [[Alexandre Artus]] (1821–1911), composer and conductor
* [[Amédée Artus]] (1815–1892), composer and conductor
* [[Frédérick Bousquet]] (born 1981), freestyle and butterfly swimmer
* [[Robert Brasillach]] (1909–1945), fascist author and journalist
* [[Eugène Collache]] (1847–1883), [[French Navy]] officer who fought in Japan
* [[Mary Elmes]] (1908–2002), Irish aid worker
* [[Jean-Luc Escayol]] (born 1972), footballer
* [[François de Fossa]] (1775–1849), classical guitarist and composer
* [[Jacques-François Gallay]] (1795–1864), French horn player and composer
* [[Philippe Georget]] (born 1962), novelist
* [[Louise Labé]] (1524–1566), Lyons poet of the [[Renaissance]]
* [[Aristide Maillol]] (1861–1944), sculptor and painter
* [[André Marty]] (1886–1956), communist leader
* [[Menachem Meiri]] (1249–c.1310), Catalan rabbi, Talmudist, and [[Maimonidean]]
* [[Isabelle Pasco]] (born 1966), actress
* [[Hyacinthe Rigaud]] (1659–1743), painter

Following a visit in 1963, the Catalan [[surrealist]] artist [[Salvador Dalí]] declared [[Gare de Perpignan|the city's railway station]] the [[list of places referred to as the Center of the Universe|centre of the Universe]], claiming that he always had his best ideas sitting in its waiting room. Dalí's painting ''[[La Gare de Perpignan]]'' commemorates his vision of "cosmogonic ecstasy" there on 19 September 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philipcoppens.com/dali.html |title=Salvador Dali: painting the fourth dimension |website=Philipcoppens.com |access-date=2016-12-17}}</ref> He followed that up some years later by declaring that the Iberian Peninsula rotated precisely at Perpignan station 132 million years ago – an event the artist invoked in his 1983 painting ''Topological Abduction of Europe – Homage to [[René Thom]]''.<ref>Elliott King in [[Dawn Adès]] (ed.), ''Dalí'', Bompiani Arte, Milan, 2004, p. 448.</ref> Above the station is a monument in Dali's honour, and across the surface of one of the main platforms is painted, in large letters, «<span style="font-variant:small-caps">perpignan centre du monde</span>» (French for "<span style="font-variant:small-caps">perpignan centre of the world</span>").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://railfaneurope.net/pix/fr/electric/emu/TGV/Duplex/misc/pix.html |title=Picture Gallery - Directory: /pix/fr/electric/emu/TGV/Duplex/misc |website=Railfaneurope.net |access-date=2016-12-17}}</ref>
[[File:Gare-de-perpignan.jpg|thumb|Perpignan train station]]