The Canton of Montauban-5 was one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It had 10,536 inhabitants (2012). It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It comprised part of the commune of Montauban.
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The Canton of Montauban-6 was one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It had 10,703 inhabitants. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It comprised part of the commune of Montauban.
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The Canton of Montauban-4 was one of the 18 cantons of the arrondissement of Montauban, in the Tarn-et-Garonne department, in southern France. It had 6,331 inhabitants. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It comprised part of the commune of Montauban.
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The siege of Montauban was a siege conducted by the young French king Louis XIII from August to November 1621, against the Protestant stronghold of Montauban. This siege followed the siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, in which Louis XIII had succeeded against Rohan's brother Benjamin de Rohan, duc de Soubise.
Despite a strength of about 25,000 men, Louis XIII was unable to capture the city of Montauban, and he had to raise the siege and abandon it after 2 months. After a lull, Louis XIII resumed his campaign with the siege of Montpellier, which ended in stalemate, leading to the 1622 Peace of Montpellier, which temporarily confirmed the right of the Huguenots in France.
The city would be finally captured in 1629, in the Redition of Montauban.
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Montauban is a commune in the southern French department of Tarn-et-Garonne. It is the capital of the department and lies 50 kilometres north of Toulouse. Montauban is the most populated town in Tarn-et-Garonne, and the sixth most populated in Occitanie behind Toulouse, Montpellier, Nîmes, Perpignan and Béziers. In 2023, there were 62,945 inhabitants, called Montalbanais in French. The town has been classified in the French Towns and Lands of Art and History network since 2015.
The town, built mainly of reddish brick, stands on the right bank of the Tarn at its confluence with the Tescou.
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Montauban Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral and a national monument of France located in the town of Montauban.
It is the seat of the Bishopric of Montauban, created in 1317, abolished by the Concordat of 1801 and transferred to the Archdiocese of Toulouse, and restored in 1822.
The cathedral of Montauban was Protestant from the start of the Wars of Religion until Catholicism returned to Montauban in 1629.
The construction of a new church, the present building, was agreed after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The cornerstone of the new cathedral was laid in 1692, and the church was consecrated in 1739. Initially, the architect François d'Orbay supervised the works. When he died in 1697, he was succeeded by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Robert de Cotte.
The towers frame the west façade, a pure product that applies all the conventions of classical art, i.e. an Ionic facade with a peristyle mounted by statues of the Four Evangelists which replaced the original statues. The interior is decorated with pilasters, metopes and triglyphs, and the cathedral's strict and elegant vertical lines make it a typical example of classical architecture. A famous painting by Ingres, "The Vow of Louis XIII", hangs in the north arm of the transept.