Montaud, Hérault

Montaud
Coat of arms of Montaud Coat of arms
Montaud
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region Montaud
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Canton	Castries
Intercommunality	Montpellier
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Pierre Combettes
Area1	12.92 km2 (4.99 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	857
• Density	66/km2 (170/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	34164 / 34160
Elevation	51–210 m (167–689 ft) (avg. 110 m or 360 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Montaud is a commune in the Hérault department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region in southern France.

Montaud is a mountain village with a dozen hamlets. It contains a school, a city hall, a church, and a few farms. Most inhabitants of Montaud work in nearby Montpellier, many as researchers, teachers, engineers and technicians.

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History

French Cardinal, Bertrand Pierre (Cardinal de Colombier), who was used by the popes at Avignon for agent in wartime missions during the Hundred Years War and in the election of Charles of Bohemia to the imperial throne, died in Montaud in 1361.

Montaud is located in the north of the Vercors, an important site of the French Resistance during World War II.

Children from the primary school of Montaud participated in a "spacetalk" via ARISS radio contact with astronaut Mike Finckle, aboard the International Space Station in 2004.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	201	—
1821	284	+41.3%
1841	280	−1.4%
1856	279	−0.4%
1872	283	+1.4%
1886	202	−28.6%
1901	249	+23.3%
1921	263	+5.6%
1936	284	+8.0%
1962	288	+1.4%
1975	298	+3.5%
1982	413	+38.6%
1990	545	+32.0%
1999	617	+13.2%
2008	857	+38.9%

See also

• Communes of the Hérault department

References

• INSEE