[2] He founded the metallurgical factories Saint-Antoine in Saint-Paul-de-Jarrat, equipped with blast furnaces, providing significant resources to pursue his ventures.

[2] His son, Joseph Louis Félix Garrigou, born on September 16, 1835, in Tarascon-sur-Ariège, and deceased on March 18, 1920, was a physician, prehistorian, spelunker, and hydrologist.

The two men unearthed skulls and various bones arranged in a circle around an impressive stalagmitic formation known as Le Mammouth, spanning an arc of about a hundred meters.

Inside the Ornolac cave, he discovered a bronze plate depicting a relief sculpture of a dove, identical to those found later at Montségur.

[2] Adolphe Garrigou sought to demonstrate the presence of the Sotiates, a mysterious Aquitainian people mentioned in the Gallic Wars, in Ariège.