 The larger Château de Peyrepertuse, another influential citadel in the region, lies approximately north-west of Cucugnan.Cucugnan featured in the short story, "The Priest of Cucugnan", published in 1869 by the Parisian author Alphonse Daudet in his collection "Letters from My Windmill", although the windmill referred to in the title is the "Moulin Saint-Pierre" at Fontvieille, Bouches-du-Rhône in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.Daudet's story is based on a sermon preached in 1858 by the Abbot Ruffié which attempts to persuade the local Christian congregation to turn to a virtuous life by recounting an imaginary trip to heaven, purgatory and hell, where the narrator finds all the old inhabitants of Cucugnan being tortured among the flames.