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MONTAUBAN today is a prosperous middle-sized provincial city, capital of the largely agricultural département of Tarn-et-Garonne. It lies on the banks of the River Tarn, 53km from Toulouse, close to its junction with the Aveyron and their joint confluence with the Garonne, where the wide alluvial plain of the three rivers stretches boringly for miles around. But this is where the lines of communication run, and Montauban lies, conveniently, on the southwest Bordeaux-Toulouse auto route and train line.
Its origins go back to 1144 when the count of Toulouse decided to create a bastide here as a bulwark against English and French royal power. In fact, it is generally regarded as the first bastide, the model for those rationally laid-out medieval new towns, and that plan is still clearly evident in the beautiful town centre.
Montauban has enjoyed various periods of great prosperity, as one can guess from the proliferation of fine town houses. The first followed the suppression of the Cathar heresy and the final submission of the counts of Toulouse in 1229 and was greatly enhanced by the building of the Pont-Vieux in 1335, making it the best crossing-point on the Tarn for miles around. The Hundred Years War did its share of damage, as did Montauban's opting for the Protestant cause in the Wars of Religion, but by the time of the Revolution it had become once more one of the richest cities in the southwest, particularly successful in the manufacture of cloth
The Town
Montauban couldn't be easier to find your way around. The greatest delight is simply to wander the streets of the city centre, with their lovely pink brick houses; the town is only a ten- or fifteen-minute stroll from end to end. The visitable part is the small kernel of central streets based on the original bastide, and is enclosed within an inner ring of boulevards between boulevard Midi-Pyrénées on the east and the river on the west. The finest point of all is the place Nationale, rebuilt after a fire in the seventeenth century and surrounded on all sides by exquisite double-vaulted arcades with the octagonal belfry of St-Jacques showing above the western rooftops. It is the hub of the city's social life and the first place to head for coffee, drinks or food.
The adjacent place du Coq on rue de la République is also pretty, and if you follow the street down it brings you out by the church of St-Jacques (first built in the thirteenth century on the pilgrim route to Compostela) and the end of the Pont-Vieux with a wide view of the river. At the near end of the bridge, the former bishop's residence is a massive half-palace, half-fortress, begun by the Black Prince in 1363 but never finished because the English lost control of the town. It is now the Musée Ingres (July & Aug daily 10am-noon & 2-6pm; rest of year Tues-Sun same hours; 20F/?3.05), so called because it houses drawings and paintings that Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a native of Montauban, left to the city on his death. It is a collection the city is very proud of, but unlikely to be of great interest to anyone but a definite Ingres fan. The same is true of the substantial collection of the works of Bourdelle, the ubiquitous monumental sculptor, also a native. There is a gruesome item in the middle of the basement room, known as a banc de question, used for extracting confessions by torture in the Montauban courts.
The Cathédrale Notre-Dame , ten minutes' walk up rue de l'Hôtel-de-Ville, is a cold fish: an austere and unsympathetic building erected just before 1700 as part of the triumphalist campaign to reassert the glories of the Catholic faith after the cruel defeat and repression of the Protestants. But it is a bit of an architectural rarity in France, where there are few cathedrals built in the classical style. |
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