Montcuq
Montcuq () is a common French of: 1310 inhabitants located in the department of the Batch and the area the Midday-Pyrenees. Its inhabitants is called the Montcuquois .
The name of the city was popularized in the Années 1970 thanks to a sketch of Pierre Bonte with Daniel Prévost for the satirical emission the Small Rapporteur .
Etymology
The etymology of Montcuq is dubious and several origins were proposed. The name would come from Latin Mons (mount) and from cuc (top) in reference to the site of the village, frame at the top of a hill. The name could also come from the preceltic root cuq meaning “height”, “headland” or “raised place”, assumption which is checked when one finds this same root in forms which survived on a regional level, with the same direction or a nearby direction: in the region of Lion, the cuchon (with a diminutive suffix) indicates a small heap. One also finds kukkuru (point, height) in Sardinian and cucca, head in sicilian, terms insular reinforcing the assumption of a preceltic origin, since the Celtes, even at the time of their greater expansion, never resided in the large islands of the Mediterranean (Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily). This assumption of the preceltic etymology is defended in particular by the linguist and historian Henriette Walter. One also quotes Latin origins, like Mont Circus Vallium (Montcuq of the Valleys) or Mont Cuneus (mount in the shape of cone). Other more poetic origins, such as Montis Cuci (mountain of the cuckoos), were also advanced.
Geography
The town of Montcuq is located on the Trunk road 653 at 25 km of Cahors, in the white Quercy on the Barguelonnette.The site of Montcuq is located on a green hill which dominates the course of Barguelonnette and the Vignoble S of Chasselas. The streets medieval be, sometimes in staircase, always sloping, go up towards the rock dome called “the castling”, crowned a top Donjon solitary, vertical, rectilinear, made of a turn and a rectangular turret.
History
The foundation of Montcuq goes up at the time Gallo-Roman.At the 12th century, it was the chief town of a châtellenie to which Raymond VII, count of Toulouse, gave a charter of habits.
Montcuq, with strong establishment cathare and of Vaud, and which had received its charter of Raymond VI, took the party occitan quite naturally.
June 1st 1212, Simon de Montfort seized the fortified town, deserted by its defenders and made gift with Beaudouin of it, half-brother of the Count de Toulouse, rejoined with the cross .
February 17th 1214, Beaudouin of Toulouse went to the Château of Lolmie (common of Saint-Laurent-Lolmie, ruins of the Château 13th century, in the south of Montcuq.) After a short combat, it was stopped by Ratier of Castelnau (however combined of Montfort), Bertrand de Mondenard and the lord of Montpezat. Led to Montcuq and deprived of food, he refused to order with his soldiers, locked up in the keep to go. The French garrison however went with the help of the safe life. The chronicler ensures that she was massacred at once. Beaudouin, taken along to Montauban, was hung on order of sound frère.
After the treaty of Meaux in 1229, the king of France made cut down the walls of the city and the castle, of which there remains only the keep.
Montcuq, at the 14th century, taken again by the English and, at the 16th century, was several times devastated by the Huguenot S.
It is today an active borough, opened tourism, and to rich person of an Agricultural cooperative and Fruit ière, and vicinity of the factory of Meringue S and Gaufre S of Saint-Daunès.
Administration
Demography
Places and monuments
- Only remainder of the Castle, the Keep high of 24 meters, of the 12th century is opened at the visits in July and August. A staircase cut in the stone leads to the single door, that of the turret-staircase. Through a thick wall of two meters, it gives access to the tower where big rooms of 12 meters superimpose themselves out of 8, out of four levels. The low room was used as store, those of the first and second stages had a chimney.
- the town hall of the 14th century has a Cloche 16th century in its Beffroi; several houses are of XIVe and the 15th centuries.
- the church Saint-Hilaire, at the octagonal bell-tower, preserves a chorus 14th century with large Gothic bays and modern glazings.
- the Vault of the convent of Cordeliers, with the Holy district Privat, has a gate of the 11th century.
Personalities related to the commune
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Joseph Puniet de Montfort: General of Empire, was born with the Château from Ventalays, close to Montcuq. It was General adviser Canton of Montcuq.
- the Chanteur Nino Ferrer lived a long time in Montcuq, until its death.
- Jean-Jacques Chapou: Resistant
Stage of the pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle
On the Via Podiensis of the Pilgrimage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle. One comes from Lascabanes, the following commune is Lauzerte, old country house and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre church.
Anecdotes
The Small Rapporteur
The commune of Montcuq knows a certain notoriety starting from 1976 thanks to a famous sketch of Pierre Bonte with Daniel Prévost for the satirical emission the Small Rapporteur . In this Sketch, the journalist comments: “Today for the first time on television, I will show you Montcuq”, the name of the village east pronounced like “my bottom”, which gives place to a certain number of word games grivois. To pay homage to this sketch which gave a notoriety to the commune, a “Street of the Small Rapporteur” is inaugurated the April 8th 2007. However, in Language of Oc, all the letters decide. The municipality conscious of the special character of its Toponymie adhered to the Association burlesques communes of France to the names and singing in order to promote the brand image of the commune.To note that Georges Brassens had already quoted Montcuq in its " Ballade of people who were born some part" (in the album Fernande (1972)).
Monopoly
In September 2007, Hasbro, the editor of the play the Monopoly, decides to launch an edition “Towns of France” by giving free choice to the Internaute S which go on the official site to choose the cities representing the 22 boxes of the streets of the Board game. On the initiative of an inhabitant of Montcuq, Mr. Laurent Bazet, a call is launched to vote Montcuq as of on September 12th, 2007. This call meets a strong echo following the death of Jacques Martin on September 14th, which replaces the village of Montcuq in the topicality. September 16th, a site attended by impassioned board games, Trictrac.net, lance in its turn a call to vote Montcuq. The relay is then made very quickly, various blogs and sites uniting with this call and making it circulate. As of on September 20th, Montcuq is first of this classification speaks about this phenomenon and of many French newspapers wrote an article on this subject.The editor announced however the November 9th 2007 that, although the city arrives largely at the head of the votes, Montcuq will not form part of the cities selected, and will be replaced by the town of Dunkirk, arrived in second position in the classification. This elimination scandalized voters and media, Télérama not hesitating to qualify it scandal and of insult. To attenuate this contrary elimination with its own payment, Hasbro announced the parallel publication of a Montcuq special edition, estimating its forecasts of sales between 5.000 and 10.000 specimens.
See too
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References
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