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For the village in the Somme département, see Montauban-de-Picardie. The Somme is a department of France, located in the north of the country and named after the Somme river. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Montauban-de-Picardie is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.

Coordinates: 44°01′05″N 1°21′21″E / 44.018056, 1.355833

Commune of Montauban
Location
Montauban (France)
Montauban
Administration
Country France
Region Midi-Pyrénées
Department Tarn-et-Garonne
(préfecture)
Arrondissement Montauban
Canton Chief town of 6 cantons
Intercommunality Communauté
d'agglomération
du Pays de Montauban
et des Trois Rivières
Mayor Brigitte Barèges
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 72 m–207 m
(avg. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Midi-Pyrénées ( Occitan: Miègjorn-Pirenèus or Mieidia-Pirenèus) is the largest region of Metropolitan France by area larger In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Tarn-et-Garonne is a French department in the southwest of France. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Montauban is an arrondissement of France located in the Tarn-et-Garonne département, in the Midi-Pyrénées The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 87 m)
Land area¹ 135. 17 km²
Population²
(1999)		 51,855
 - Density 384/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 82121/ 82000
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E
France

Montauban (Montalban in Occitan) is a town and commune of southwestern France, préfecture (capital) of the Tarn-et-Garonne département, 31 miles (50 km) north of Toulouse. Occitan ( IPA BrE: /ˈɒksɪtn/ AmE: /ˈɑksəˌtɑn/ known also as Lenga d'òc or Langue d'oc (native name occitan The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' Tarn-et-Garonne is a French department in the southwest of France. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest

The town, built mainly of a reddish brick, stands on the right bank of the Tarn River at its confluence with the Tescou. The Tarn River ( tarnis in Latin; hypothetical meaning rapid or walled in) is a long River in southern France (

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History

Arcade at Place Nationale in Montauban
Arcade at Place Nationale in Montauban

With the exception of Mont-de-Marsan, Montauban is the oldest of the bastides of southern France. Mont-de-Marsan is a commune of France, préfecture (capital of the Landes département. Bastides are fortified new towns built in Medieval Languedoc, Gascony and Aquitaine during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries although Its foundation dates from 1144 when Alphonse Jourdain, count of Toulouse, granted it a liberal charter. Alfonso Jordan ( French: Alphonse Jourdain; 1103 &ndash 1148 was the Count of Tripoli from 1105 until 1109 and thereafter Count of Toulouse The first comites ( counts) of Toulouse were the administrators of the city and its environs under the Merovingians No succession of such royal The inhabitants were drawn chiefly from Montauriol, a village which had grown up around the neighbouring monastery of St Théodard. Theodard was also the murdered bishop Theodard of Maastricht.

In the 13th century the town suffered much from the ravages of the Albigensians and from the Inquisition, but by 1317 it had recovered sufficiently to be chosen by John XXII as the head of a diocese of which the basilica of St Théodard became the cathedral. The term Inquisition can refer to any one of several institutions charged with trying and convicting heretics within the Roman Catholic Church and Pope John (numbering Pope John XXII (1249 &ndash December 4, 1334) born Jacques Duèze (or d'Euse) was Pope from 1316 to 1334 This article is about the history and organisation of the cathedral

In 1360, at the Treaty of Brétigny, it was ceded to the English; they were expelled by the inhabitants in 1414. The Treaty of Brétigny was a Treaty signed on May 8, 1360, between King Edward III of England and King John II (the Good In 1560 the bishops and magistrates embraced Protestantism, expelled the monks, and demolished the cathedral. A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Ten years later it became one of the four Huguenot strongholds under the Peace of Saint-Germain, and formed a small independent republic. The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France (or French Calvinists) from the sixteenth to the eighteenth The Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye was a treaty signed August 5, 1570 at the royal Château of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, ending the third of the French It was the headquarters of the Huguenot rebellion of 1621, and successfully withstood an 86-day siege by Louis XIII. For the cognac see Louis XIII de Rémy Martin. Louis XIII ( September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643) It did not submit to royal authority until after the fall of La Rochelle in 1629, when its fortifications were destroyed by Cardinal Richelieu. La Rochelle is a city in western France, and a Seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. Fortifications are Military Constructions and Buildings designed for defense in Warfare Humans have constructed defensive works for This article is about a cardinal For information on the Russian also called The Red Eminence, see Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov. The Protestants again suffered persecution after the repeal of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The Edict of Nantes was issued on April 13, 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinist Protestants of

Sights

Its fortifications have been replaced by boulevards beyond which extend numerous suburbs, while on the left bank of the Tarn is the suburb of Villebourbon, which is connected with the town by a remarkable bridge of the early 14th century. This bridge is known as Pont Vieux (i. e. "Old Bridge"). King Philip the Fair of France officially launched the building of the bridge in 1303 while on a tour to Toulouse. Toulouse ( pronounced in standard French, and in the local accent ( Occitan: Tolosa, pronounced) is a city in southwest The project took 30 years to complete, and the bridge was inaugurated in 1335. The main architects were Étienne de Ferrières and Mathieu de Verdun. It is a pink brick structure over 205 meters (224 yards) in length, but while its fortified towers have disappeared, it is otherwise in good preservation. The bridge was designed to resist the violent floods of the Tarn River, and indeed it withstood successfully the two terrible millennial floods of 1441 and 1930. The Tarn River ( tarnis in Latin; hypothetical meaning rapid or walled in) is a long River in southern France ( The bridge is a straight level bridge, which is quite unusual for Medieval Europe, where lack of technological skills meant that most bridges were humpback bridges.

The Musée Ingres, on the site of a castle of the Counts of Toulouse and once the residence of the bishops of Montauban, stands at the east end of the bridge. The Musée Ingres (Ingres Museum is located in Montauban, France. It belongs chiefly to the 17th century, but some portions are much older, notably an underground chamber known as the Hall of the Black Prince (Salle du Prince Noir). It comprises most of the work (including his "Jesus among the Doctors") of Jean Ingres, the celebrated painter, whose birth in Montauban is commemorated by an elaborate monument. It is the largest museum of Ingres paintings in the world. The museum also contains some sculptures by famous sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, another native of Montauban, as well as collections of antiquities (Greek vases) and 18th and 19th ceramics. Antoine Bourdelle, originally Émile Antoine Bourdelle, ( October 30, 1861 - October 1, 1929) was a French sculptor Pottery is the Ceramic ware made by potters It also refers to a group of materials that includes Earthenware, Stoneware

The Place Nationale is a square of the 17th century, entered at each corner by gateways giving access to a large open space surrounded by pink brick houses carried on double rows of arcades.

The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban (the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution), and is an elegant 18th century large mansion, built of pink bricks and white stones, with a steep roof of blue gray slates, in a style marrying northern and southern French styles of architecture. A prefecture ( préfecture) in France can refer to: the Chef-lieu de département, the town in which the administration of a ''département'' A prefect (préfet in France is the State's representative in a department or region. The French Revolution (1789–1799 was a period of political and social upheaval in the History of France, during which the French governmental structure previously an

The chief churches of Montauban are the cathedral, remarkable only for the possession of the "Vow of Louis XIII", one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the church of St Jacques (14th and 15th centuries), dedicated to Saint James of Compostela, the façade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal tower, the base of which is in Romanesque style, while the upper levels, built later, are in Gothic style. For people and places called Saint James, see the Saint James disambiguation page Regional characteristics of Romanesque architecture|Romanesque art Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which See also Gothic art Gothic architecture is a style of Architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. [Montauban:[1]

Economy

The commercial importance of Montauban is due rather to its trade in agricultural produce, horses, game and poultry, than to its industries, which include nursery-gardening, cloth-weaving, cloth-dressing, flour-milling, wood-sawing, and the manufacture of furniture, silk-gauze and straw hats.

Demographics

Population:

1906: town, 16,813; commune, 28,688
1999: 51,800

Transport

The town is a railway junction, and communicates with the Garonne by the Canal of Montech. The Garonne (Garonne in Occitan, Catalan and Spanish: Garona; Garumna is a River in southwest France and northern

Sport

The town is home of the rugby union club US Montauban. Overview See also Playing rugby union A rugby union match lasts for 80 minutes (plus stoppage time with a short US Montauban are a French Rugby union club currently competing in the Top 14 competition after being promoted from Rugby Pro D2 for the 2006-07 season The team gained promotion from the Pro D2 competition for the 2006-07 Top 14 season. The Top 14 is a Rugby union club competition which is played in France.

Miscellaneous

Montauban is the seat of a bishop and a court of assize. It has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of commerce and a board of trade arbitration, lycées and a training college, schools of commerce and viticulture, a branch of the Bank of France, and a faculty of Protestant theology. Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. Theology is the study of a god or the gods from a religious perspective

Births

Montauban was the birthplace of:

References

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