 The configuration of the city shortly moved from the end of the 1960s.The fame and prestige of the city increased thanks to the conference of the Indochinese States from June to November 1950, visits of Heads of State such as president Charles de Gaulle in February 1959 and the first Secretary of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, travelling in Lacq in 1960.André Labarrère, mayor from 1971 to 2006, worked towards a first step of the beautification of the city.