Saint-Étienne-de-Tulmont (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿etjɛn də tylmɔ̃]; Languedocien: Sent Estèfe de Tulmon) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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The canton of Quercy-Aveyron is an administrative division of the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Albias.
It consists of the following communes:
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Albias is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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Léojac is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
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The Nègrepelisse massacre was a massacre committed on 10 and 11 June 1622 by the French Royal Army of King Louis XIII in the Protestant stronghold of Nègrepelisse during the Huguenot rebellions. The taking of the town followed Louis's unsuccessful siege of Montauban.
After a short siege the town was captured by assault, and all the inhabitants that the attacking soldiers encountered were put to the sword, without distinction of age or sex, to a total of about 800. According to one source, "all the women and girls were raped and massacred". The town was then looted and deliberately burned to the ground. This severe treatment was in retaliation for the alleged massacre of a royal regiment left in garrison in the city by the Duke of Mayenne. The king had ordered:
I command you to give no quarter to any man, because they have irritated me, and shall be served as they treated the others.
The Huguenot garrison that had attempted to hold out in the town's citadel were obliged to surrender the next day, and all the men were hanged. The anonymous author of a contemporary report celebrating the massacre as a royal victory and a just punishment of rebels remarked that:
These traitors and rebels suffered all the chastisement that the mind of man might imagine to punish crime and rebellion, and those who escaped the fire and the blood ended their lives on gibbets as an example and a horror to those who would wish to imitate them. I have never heard of or seen a more horrible spectacle than this, for we marched over the bodies of the dead stretched naked and mutilated in the streets, which would touch the hardest of hearts.
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Nègrepelisse is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. It lies on the river Aveyron. The village was the setting for the Nègrepelisse massacre, which took place in 1622.
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