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Montauban (in Occitan Montalban ) is a common French, it is the chief town and the prefecture of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne in area the Midday-Pyrenees.

Its inhabitants is called Montalbanais.

Geography

Montauban is located at about fifty Kilomètre S with the Northern of Toulouse in the department of the Tarn-et-Garonne, with the junction of the Tescou and the Tarn.

The construction material more used is the red brick, which gives a typical aspect to the city.

History

In 1144, the Count of Toulouse, Alphonse the Jordan, founds Montauban. It is the first country house of the Histoire.

In the Years 1530 and following, the population of Montauban converts with the Protestantisme, to be entirely huguenote at the beginning of the wars of religion. In 1559, the mass for the death of Henri II is known as only at the end of eight month. In January 1561, the Protestant worship is public; in August, the catholic monks are in impossibility of preaching. The bishop is driven out, and all the consuls of the city are Protestant.

In 1562, at the time of the first war of religion, Montauban resists three attempts at seat of Monluc. The churches are not returned to the catholics, in 1563, that under the threat. Also, when Charles IX makes his Tour de France royal (1564 - 1566), accompanied by the Cour and Large by the kingdom: his/her brother the duke of Anjou, Henri de Navarre, the cardinal of Bourbon and Lorraine, it is required that Montalbanais shave their fortifications to accommodate the king. After negotiations, it is accepted, and the king makes his entry on March 20th, 1565. He is accommodated in the jubilation. If the bishop, Jacques II of the Meadows-Montpezat, can return, it does not remain.

In 1571, the Peace of Saint-Germain, signed between the King Charles IX and the admiral Gaspard de Coligny, grants the Protestants four fortified towns: La Rochelle, Cognac, Montauban and the Charity-on-Loire. A new enclosure is built.

In 1598, Henri IV, having granted by the edict of Nantes of the religious rights to the Protestants of France, grants to the latter “places of safety” 51, more of the places of refuge. Montauban is one of the principal places of safety granted by the king, with Nimes and La Rochelle. It thus acquires the right to be protected while building and while maintaining the fortifications.

In 1621, the duke of Luynes, constable of France which carries out the war against the Protestants, raises the Siège of Montauban in spite of an impressive artillery concentration. The city resists the heavy fire of 400 parts (one speaks about the 400 blows of Montauban) whose clochet of the Saint-Jacob church still keeps some traces. This history the Four Hundred Blows of Montauban is, in fact, a legend, which the historian max Lagarrigue showed.

In 1790, Montauban belongs to the department of the Lot, and is chief town of a district, then sub-prefecture with the creation of the prefectoral administration, in 1800. It is necessary to await 1808, year of the creation of the department of Tarn-et-Garonne by Napoleon I {{er}}, so that the city becomes chief town of department.

Blasonnement

Of mouths to the étêté gold willow, having six branches without sheets, three with dextral, three with sinistral; with the bent chief of azure charged with three flowers of gold lily.

Climate

The Climat of Montauban is characterized by a certain softness present throughout the year. The minimal tempéarture was reached on January 9th, 1985 with -20°C and the maximum temperature in August 2003 with 41,8°C. The annual average of precipitation is of 739 mm but it fell only 425 mm from rain in 1967 and 1005 in 1959. Snow is rare in Montauban but it fell 15 cm in January 1985 and 14 cm the 28 and January 29th, 2006.

The wind is very weak in the Tarn-et-Garonne but its dominant direction remainder is western/north-western. In November 1982, wind of Southerly wind blew in Montauban with more 120km/h.

Administration

Demography

Economy

  • Montauban is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Montauban and Tarn-et-Garonne.

  • the Dispatch of the South, regional daily newspaper of information
  • the cookie factory Poult
  • Electroacoustic Bouyer
  • Wire of A. Doumenge (Food)
  • the Small Newspaper, regional weekly magazine
  • Dragees Pécou
  • CGPME the Midday-Pyrenees, employers' federation

Teaching

  • University of Montauban, antenna of the University of Toulouse 1 Social sciences
  • Business school and of Management of Montauban (EGC)
  • College Jules Michelet
  • College Antoine Bourdelle
  • Agricultural college of Capou, speciality arboriculture/horticulture
  • College College family Institute (Private)
  • College Saint-Théodard College (private)
  • Private Vocational school Skhole d' Art (hairstyle, esthetics)
  • Montauriol College (private)
  • College Olympe de Gouges (Montplaisir), triple champion of France of Rugby
  • College Jean-Jaurès (Villebourbon)
  • College Notre-Dame
  • College Ingres

Tourist monuments and places

Montauban is classified town of art and history.

  • Montauban is a city whose tourist value is choked sometimes a little by the justified interest carried to his/her sisters of “colors” Toulouse and Albi.

Actually it constitutes an architectural curiosity of most characteristic of the area. Founded in 1144 by the count of Toulouse, like many small towns of South-west (the country house S), she answers perfectly the characteristics of these last: the layout of its streets (which cut all in right angles) defines a rectangular central place. The old center is thus very homogeneous in the direction where no modern building comes to break the harmony of the frontages of bricks generally built at the 17th century and 18th century. Certain buildings and architectural complexes are worth the turning more particularly:
  • the Museum Ingres (old town hall and episcopal palate): built at the 17th century on the remainders of the palate that the Prince Noir occupied during the one hundred year old war. Some of the rooms of this last can be visited with the basements besides. It shelters works of the two most famous inhabitants of the city: Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres and Emile Antoine Bourdelle.
  • the National Place: rebuilt at the 17th century following a fire, its double line of arcades arched on intersecting ribs is a wonder.
  • the old bridge: an extraordinary work built on the orders of Philippe Beautiful the about 1300. The jewel does without comments, it was anyway born 300 years before oldest from the Parisian bridges and is contemporary with the Ponte Vecchio of Florence.
  • the Saint-Jacob church: its base of the 13th century still carries the marks of the Boulet S launched at the time of the Siège of Montauban by Louis XIII.
  • the cathedral. Atypical stone vessel in a town of brick. Its construction was ordered by Louis XIV to mark the presence of the royal capacity and Catholicism in a traditionally Protestant city.
  • Old the College: rebuilt after a Fire which destroyed this college Jesuit in 1961, this building is very representative of brick constructions which make of Montauban the " rose" city; and in particular the Tourist office of the city shelters.

Art and culture

  • Aujourd'hui the city accommodates each year the Festival Alors… Chante!! .
  • Concert hall and spectacles of the city, the Salle Eurythmie
  • It accommodates also every July a great festival of Jazz, the Jazz in Montauban and in Tarn and the Garonne.
  • the Museum Ingres point of disjunction of works of two Montalbanais famous, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Antoine Bourdelle. One finds there the famous Hobby.
  • Among the artists of Montauban, let us quote J. Shepherdess whose talent more than ten years after its death remains too much ignored.
  • the Museum of Resistance and the Deportation.
  • the Museum of natural history.
  • Theaters: The Theater Olympe de Gouges and the Theater of the Clearing.
  • Cinemas: The city has a Multiplexe, like two other rooms, the " République" and the " Paris".

Transport

The urban transport of the city is the Transports Montalbanais. The company includes/understands 11 lines of Bus which serve the whole of the commune.

The Gare of Montauban Villebourbon is a station TGV.

Famous characters

Montauban is the birthplace of:

  • Rene Bousquet, French high-civil servant General secretary of the police force of the mode of Vichy.

Nobody having grown in Montauban.

In Montauban died:

  • Hire, (1390 - 1443) companion of Jeanne d' Arc.
  • Daniel Chamier, (1564 - 1621) Protestant theologist, professor at the university of Montauban and politician, killed during the seat of the city.
  • Manual Azaña, (Alcalá de Henares, Spain 1880 - 1940). Last president of the Spanish Republic.
  • Antonin Perbosc, (1861 - 1944), poet occitan.

Sport

  • . Club of Rugby to XV evolving/moving in Championship of France of Rugby Signal 14 in 2007-08. The club evolves/moves with the Stade Sapiac.

  • Montauban Football Club, football club evolving/moving in DHR
  • US Montauban 82 cyclist, evolving/moving on the level elite.
  • the club of diving CANOM
  • the MBC (Tennis shoe) evolving/moving in Main road 3 Male.
  • Association Montauban Tennis, organizer of a tournament challenger ATP.
  • the Young Hopes Montalbanais (J.E.M.): School of Football, created in 1986 and considered for its training of young people (not of senior teams).
  • the USM Fencing little known but strong of its results in national competition each year.
  • the HDC 82 Sabercats, club Harley-Davidson de Tarn-et-Garonne, organizes each year in May there, the festival of the motor bike and the trikes which drains approximately 3000 visitors over the weekend, from all France and from the countries bordering.

Soldier

The 17th Regiment of Genius Parachutist (RGP) is a military unit of the French Army located at Montauban.

Twinning

See too

  • Site of the city
  • Tourist office
  • Site of Service

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