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22 unusual facts about Montauban


Ahmadiyya Jabrayilov

In May 1942 he was severely wounded, taken prisoner by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp in Montauban.

Air racing

Powered paragliding or Paramotor races have been organized with the first occurring on 4 September 2010 in an airfield in Montauban, Southern France.

André d'Espinay

1451, the son of Richard d'Espinay and Beatrix de Montauban.

Canton of Montauban-1

The Canton of Montauban-1 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-2

The Canton of Montauban-2 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-3

The Canton of Montauban-3 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-4

The Canton of Montauban-4 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-5

The Canton of Montauban-5 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Canton of Montauban-6

The Canton of Montauban-6 is one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France.

Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao

He was appointed in 1858 to a command at home, and at the close of 1859 was selected to lead the French troops in the joint French and British expedition to China.

His conduct of the operations did not escape criticism, but in 1862 he received from Napoleon III, the title of comte de Palikao (from the Battle of Palikao in Peking); he had already been made a senator.

The allegation that he had acquired a vast fortune by the plunder of the Peking Summer Palace seems to have been without foundation.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne

Henry of Mayenne or Henry of Lorraine, (Dijon, December 20, 1578 – Montauban, September 20, 1621) was a French noble from the House of Lorraine and more particularly from the House of Guise.

Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan

Jean Georges Lefranc de Pompignan (22 February 1715 in Montauban – 29 December 1790 in Paris) was a French clergyman, younger brother of Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan.

La rondine

They chat and Ruggero tells Magda that she reminds him of the quiet and elegant girls from his home town, Montauban.

Les Passions

Created in 1986 by the recorder player Jean-Marc Andrieu, the orchestra Les Passions is in residence in the south-west French town of Montauban.

Montauban Cathedral

Montauban Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Montauban) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Montauban.

Musée Ingres

The Musée Ingres (Ingres Museum) is located in Montauban, France.

Notre-Dame-de-Montauban, Quebec

The town has two Catholic places of worship, the church of Notre-Dame-des-Anges (Our Lady of the Angels) and the chapel of Montauban.

Palikao

Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao — 31st Prime Minister of France, who was from Tighenif

SNCF 240P

These 12 4-8-0s were created to tackle the 1:100 gradients of the Brive to Montauban division of the line from Paris to Toulouse, steeper than those to Bordeaux.


Battle of Palikao

The French troops were led by Charles Guillaume Cousin-Montauban, who was then awarded the title of Count of Palikao and a decade later, the 31st prime minister by Napoléon III.

Canal de Montech

The Canal de Montech is a 10.9 km waterway in southwestern France connecting the Canal de Garonne in Montech and the Tarn River in Montauban.

Guillaume de Felice

He became a pastor at the Reformed Church of Bolbec, in Normandy Seine-Maritime, then a professor of theology in Montauban, occupying the chair 'de morale et d'éloquence sacrée' (of morality and holy speech).

Henri de Nesmond

He was in turn abbot of Chézy in 1682, bishop of Montauban in 1687, councillor to the parlement de Toulouse in 1695, archbishop of Albi in 1703, and finally archbishop of Toulouse in 1719.

Jean-Jacques Lefranc, Marquis de Pompignan

At the same time, lands were purchased at Pompignan (some 20 km to the southwest of Montauban) to provide a convenient rural retreat.

Kasino Point

The Kasino Point machine gun post was located between the villages of Mametz, Carnoy and Montauban.

Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro, is a French author, journalist and film director, born in Montauban (close to the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) on 27 August 1936.