Montauban - Reference

44º01N 1º21E, pop (2001e) 51 900. Capital of Tarn-et-Garonne department, Midi-Pyrénées region, SW France; at the confluence of the Tarn and Tescou rivers; located 50 km/30 mi N of Toulouse; ancient capital of Quercy; founded (12th-c) by the counts of Toulouse; built mainly of pink brick; birthplace of Antoine Bourdelle and Ingres; 17th-c episcopal palace became the Musée Ingres (mid-19th-c) and houses many of his works; early 14th-c bridge (Pont-Vieux); Church of Saint-Jacques (14th–15th-c); cathedral (1739); marketing centre for fruit and vegetable produce; food processing, dairy goods, electrical and aeronautical goods, furniture.

Commune of Montauban
Location
Coordinates	44°1′5″N, 1°21′21″E
Administration
Country	France
Région	Midi-Pyrénées
Département	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
Altitude	72 m–207 m (avg. 87 m)
Land area¹	135.17 km²
Population² (1999)	51,855
- Density (1999)	384/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	82121/ 82000
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers >
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g.

Montauban (Montalban in Occitan) is a town and commune of southwestern France, préfecture (capital) of the Tarn-et-Garonne département, 31 miles north of Toulouse.

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.

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.

Births

Montauban was the birthplace of:

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709-1784), poet Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (1743-1790), general and military writer Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793), playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience Jean Bon Saint-André (1749-1813), French revolutionary Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (1790-1867), painter Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), sculptor and teacher

Reference

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Montauban This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. Préfectures of départements of France Bourg-en-Bresse (Ain) • Laon (Aisne) • Moulins (Allier • Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) • Gap (Hautes-Alpes) • Nice (Alpes-Maritimes) • Privas (Ardeche) • Charleville-Mézières (Ardennes) • Foix (Ariège) • Troyes (Aube) • Carcassonne (Aude) • Rodez (Aveyron) • Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) • Caen (Calvados) • Aurillac (Cantal) • Angoulême (Charente) • La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) • Bourges (Cher) • Tulle (Corrèze) • Ajaccio (corse-du-Sud) • Bastia (Haute-Corse) • Dijon (Côte-d'Or) • Saint-Brieuc (Côtes-d'Armor) • Guéret (Creuse) • Périgueux (Dordogne) • Besançon (Doubs) • Valence (Drôme) • Évreux (Eure) • Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) • Quimper (Finistère) • Nîmes (Gard) • Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) • Auch (Gers) • Bordeaux (Gironde) • Montpellier (Hérault) • Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) • Châteauroux (Indre) • Tours (Indre-et-Loire) • Grenoble (Isère) • Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) • Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) • Blois (Loir-et-Cher) • Saint-Étienne (Loire) • Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire) • Nantes (Loire-Atlantique) - Orléans (Loiret) • Cahors (Lot) • Agen (Lot-et-Garonne) • Mende (Lozère) • Angers (Maine-et-Loire) • Saint-Lô (Manche) • Châlons-en-Champagne (Marne) • Chaumont (Haute-Marne) - Laval (Mayenne) • Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) • Bar-le-Duc (Meuse) • Vannes (Morbihan) • Metz (Moselle) • Nevers (Nièvre) • Lille (Nord) • Beauvais (Oise) • Alençon (Orne) • Calais (Pas-de-Calais) • Clermont-Ferrand (Puy-de-Dôme) • Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) • Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) • Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) • Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin) • Colmar (Haut-Rhin) • Lyon (Rhône) • Vesoul (Haute-Saône) • Mâcon (Saône-et-Loire) • Le Mans (Sarthe) • Chambéry (Savoie) • Annecy (Haute-Savoie) • Paris (Paris) • Rouen (Seine-Maritime) • Melun (Seine-et-Marne) • Versailles (Yvelines) • Niort (Deux-Sèvres) • Amiens (Somme) • Albi (Tarn) • Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) • Toulon (Var) • Avignon (Vaucluse) • La Roche-sur-Yon (Vendée) • Poitiers (Vienne) • Limoges (Haute-Vienne) • Épinal (Vosges) • Auxerre (Yonne) • Belfort (Territoire de Belfort) - Évry (Essonne) - Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) • Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) • Créteil (Val-de-Marne) • Cergy (Val-d'Oise)

Overseas départements:
Cayenne (French Guiana) • Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) • Fort-de-France (Martinique) • Saint-Denis (Réunion)