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MONTAUBAN , a See also:town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of See also:Tarn-et-See also:Garonne, 31 M. N. of See also:Toulouse by the See also:Southern railway. Pop. (1906), town, 16,813; See also:commune, 28,688. The town, built mainly of a reddish See also:brick, stands on the right See also:bank of the Tarn at its confluence with the Tescou. Its fortifications have been replaced by boulevards beyond which extend numerous suburbs, while on the See also:left bank of the Tarn is the suburb of Villebourbon, which is connected with the town by a remarkable See also:bridge of the See also:early 14th See also:century. It is a brick structure over 200 yds. in length, and though its fortified towers have disappeared it isotherwise in See also:good preservation. The hotel de ville, on the site of a See also:castle of the See also:counts of Toulouse and once the See also:residence of the bishops of Montauban, stands at the See also:east end of the bridge. It belongs chiefly to the 17th century, but some portions are much older, notably an underground chamber known as the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall of the See also:Black See also:Prince. Besides the municipal offices it contains a valuable library, and a museum with collections of antiquities and pictures. The latter comprise most of the See also:work (including his " Jesus among the Doctors ") of See also:Jean See also:Ingres, the celebrated painter, whose See also:birth in Montauban is commemorated by an elaborate See also:monument. The See also:Place Nationale is a square of the 17th century, entered at each corner by gateways giving See also:access to a large open space surrounded by houses carried on See also:double rows of arcades. The prefecture, the See also:law-courts and the remaining public buildings are See also:modern. The See also:chief churches of Montauban are the See also:cathedral, remarkable only for the See also:possession of the " See also:Vow of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIII.," one of the masterpieces of Ingres, and the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Jacques (14th and 15th centuries), the See also:facade of which is surmounted by a handsome octagonal See also:tower. Montauban is the seat of a See also:bishop, a See also:prefect and a See also:court of See also:assize. It has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, a chamber of commerce and a See also:board of See also:trade See also:arbitration, lycees and a training See also:college, See also:schools of commerce and viticulture, a See also:branch of the Bank of France, and a See also:faculty of See also:Protestant See also:theology. The commercial importance of Montauban is due rather to its trade in agricultural produce, horses, See also:game and poultry, than to its See also:industries, which include nursery-gardening, See also:cloth-See also:weaving, cloth-dressing, See also:flour-milling, See also:wood-sawing, and the manufacture of See also:furniture, See also:silk-See also:gauze and See also:straw hats. The town is a junction of the See also:railways of the Southern and See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans companies, and communicates with the Garonne by the See also:Canal of Montech.
With the exception of Mont-de-Marsan, Montauban is the See also:oldest of the bastides of southern France. Its See also:foundation See also:dates from 1144 when See also:Alphonse Jourdain, See also:count of Toulouse, granted it a liberal See also:charter. The inhabitants were See also:drawn chiefly from Montauriol, a See also:village which had grown up around the neighbouring monastery of St Theodard. In the 13th century the town suffered much from the ravages of the Albigensians and from the See also:Inquisition, but by 1317 it had recovered sufficiently to be chosen by See also:John XXII. as the See also:head of a See also:diocese of which the See also:basilica of St Theodard became the cathedral. By the treaty of Bretigny (1360) it was ceded to the See also:English; but in 1414 they were expelled by the inhabitants. In 156o the bishops and magistrates embraced Protestantism, expelled the monks, and demolished the cathedral. About ten years later it became one of the Huguenot strongholds, and formed a small See also:independent See also:republic. It was the headquarters of the Huguenot See also:rebellion of 1621, and was vainly besieged by Louis XIII. for eighty-six days; nor did it submit until after the fall of La Rochelle in 1629, when its fortifications were destroyed by See also:Richelieu. In the same See also:year the See also:plague cut off over 6000 of its inhabitants. The Protestants again suffered persecution after the See also:repeal of the See also:Edict of See also:Nantes.
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