Montauban

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.

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.

Related Topics:
Protestant - Theology

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Births

Montauban was the birthplace of:

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• 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