Montégut-Lauragais

Montégut-Lauragais
Montégut-Lauragais
Commune
	A general view of Montégut-Lauragais
	Coat of arms
	Location of Montégut-Lauragais
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	Coordinates: 43°28′47″N 1°55′26″E / 43.4797°N 1.9239°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Toulouse
Canton	Revel
Intercommunality	Lauragais-Revel-Sorèzois
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Barbaste
Area 1	7.72 km2 (2.98 sq mi)
Population (2021)	414
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	31371 /31540
Elevation	188–258 m (617–846 ft) ; (avg. 215 m or 705 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montégut-Lauragais (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃teɡy loʁaɡɛ]; Occitan: Montagut de Lauragués) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

Population

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).^[3] His name by then was Charlie Hilsberg.^[4] 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.

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Les enfants sans Ombres. A movie by Bernard Balteau, RTBF-Dérives, 2009.
^ Un enfant sans ombre, parcours d'une vie. Shaul Harel, 2018, 455pp.