Located in the southwest of the Larzac plateau, Cornus dominates the valley of the Sorgue, at an altitude of 630 meters.
The village was home to Cornus long flourishing industrial activities related to the presence of La Sorgue and Boras: paper mills, the last closed in 1905, which turned the mills until 1925, the tanneries in the Middle Ages and the old regime, flour mills.
Cornus played an important role in the Reformation because instead embraced the Protestant religion. This village has a church and a temple. The latter was built in the 18th century by Paul Coulon, born in 1731 and Cornus trader at Neufchatel in Switzerland, in the upper part of town with narrow streets that preserves the remains of fortifications. The church dates from the 19th century, and contains an altar of white limestone, monumental, and a Madonna and Child Wood (eighteenth century).