High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint-Auban is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in southeastern France. Alpes-Maritimes is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.Alpes Maritimae was created by Octavian as a Roman military district in 14 BCE, and became a full Roman province in the middle of the 1st century CE with its capital first at Cemenelum (today Cimiez, a neighborhood in Nice) and subsequently at Embrun. At its greatest extent in 297 CE, the province reached north to Digne and Briançon.