Montauban (fra)

Montauban

Montauban ranks 2,087th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Belfort, Casilda, and Townsville. Memorable people born in Montauban include Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Olympe de Gouges, and Antoine Bourdelle. Memorable people who died in Montauban include Manuel Azaña, La Hire, and Charles Friedel. Montauban has been the birth place of many painters, and social activists and the death place of many politicians, and military personnels. Montauban is located in France.

Montauban is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It is the capital of the department and lies 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated of Occitanie behind Toulouse, Montpellier, Nîmes, Perpignan and Béziers. In 2019, there were 61,372 inhabitants, called Montalbanais. The town has been classified Ville d’art et d’histoire since 2015. Read more on Wikipedia