Montégut-Lauragais Explained
| Montégut-Lauragais |
| Commune Status: | Commune |
| Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Montégut-Lauragais (Haute-Garonne).svg |
| Arrondissement: | Toulouse |
| Canton: | Revel |
| Insee: | 31371 |
| Postal Code: | 31540 |
| Mayor: | Philippe Barbaste[1] |
| Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
| Intercommunality: | Lauragais-Revel-Sorèzois |
| Coordinates: | 43.4797°N 1.9239°W |
| Elevation M: | 215 |
| Elevation Min M: | 188 |
| Elevation Max M: | 258 |
| Area Km2: | 7.72 |
Montégut-Lauragais (in French pronounced as /mɔ̃teɡy loʁaɡɛ/; Occitan (post 1500);: Montagut de Lauragués) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Population
Notable people
- Pierre Duèze, Lord of Montbrun, (1244-1326)
- Shaul Harel, (1937-) Neuropediatrician in Tel-Aviv, past-president of the Child Neurology Society. He and his family were hosted by the inhabitants and the local Authority and they lived in the village presbytery during the World-War II exodus (May–October 1940).[2] His name by then was Charlie Hilsberg.[3] As he and his family went back to Brussels thereafter, he survived war with the help of the Comité de Défense des Juifs and notably to Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, an active resistant.
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
- Les enfants sans Ombres. A movie by Bernard Balteau, RTBF-Dérives, 2009.
- Un enfant sans ombre, parcours d'une vie. Shaul Harel, 2018, 455pp.
