Saint-Amans-Soult | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Saint-Amans-Soult (Tarn).svg |
Arrondissement: | Castres |
Canton: | Mazamet-2 Vallée du Thoré |
Insee: | 81238 |
Postal Code: | 81240 |
Mayor: | Jérôme Cros[1] |
Term: | 2024 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | CA Castres Mazamet |
Coordinates: | 43.4778°N 2.4906°W |
Elevation M: | 269 |
Elevation Min M: | 239 |
Elevation Max M: | 1172 |
Area Km2: | 24.87 |
Saint-Amans-Soult (in French pronounced as /sɛ̃t‿amɑ̃ sult/; Languedocien: Sant Amanç de Solt) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
The commune was formerly called Saint-Amans-la-Bastide. It was renamed in 1851, after Marshal Jean-de-Dieu Soult, who was born there in 1769. Marshal-General Soult, under the Emperor Napoleon, was later named as Duke of Dalmatia, and following the Emperor's permanent exile to St. Helena, enjoyed a long and fruitful career as a politician and diplomant under several early 19th century royalist and republican regimes in France. His son, Napoleon H. de Soult, arranged for the posthumous publication of his father's Memoires after 1851.
The Thoré forms the commune's northern border.