Montauban - Personalities

Personalities

Montauban was the birthplace of:

  • Jean-Jacques Lefranc, marquis de Pompignan (1709–1784), poet
  • Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, Comte de Guibert (1743–1790), general and military writer
  • Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793), playwright and journalist whose feminist writings reached a large audience
  • Jean Bon Saint-André (1749–1813), French revolutionary
  • Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, (1780–1867), painter
  • Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1929), sculptor and teacher
  • Daniel Cohn-Bendit (1943–), leader of May '68 student protests and MEP
  • Didier Rous (1970–), cyclist
  • Mathieu Perget (1984–), cyclist
  • Camille Gardelle (1866–1947), architect who designed many famous buildings in Uruguay
  • Alexis Palisson (1987–), rugby union player

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