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Montaud

Coat of arms of Montaud

Coat of arms

Location of Montaud

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Montaud is located in France

Montaud

Montaud

Montaud is located in Occitanie

Montaud

Montaud

Coordinates: 43°45′07″N 3°57′23″E / 43.7519°N 3.9564°E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentHérault
ArrondissementMontpellier
CantonLe Crès
IntercommunalityMontpellier Méditerranée Métropole
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Joël Raymond[1]

Area

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12.92 km2 (4.99 sq mi)
Population

 (2022)[2]

1,024
 • Density79/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code

34164 /34160

Elevation51–210 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.

Montaud (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃to]; Occitan: Montaut) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie 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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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.[3]

Montaud is located in the north of the Vercors, an important site of the French Resistance during World War II. (Montaud located in the Vercors is another village "montaud 38") 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.[4]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 290—    
1975 298+0.39%
1982 413+4.77%
1990 545+3.53%
1999 616+1.37%
2009 884+3.68%
2014 980+2.08%
2020 1,039+0.98%
Source: INSEE[5]