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Lamagistère - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 44°07′33″N 0°49′28″E / 44.1258°N 0.8244°E

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Lamagistère
Commune
A view of the village from across the Garonne river
Coat of arms
Location of Lamagistère
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Coordinates: 44°07′33″N 0°49′28″E / 44.1258°N 0.8244°E / 44.1258; 0.8244
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Tarn-et-Garonne
Arrondissement	Castelsarrasin
Canton	Valence
Intercommunality	Deux Rives
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bruno Dousson^[1]
Area ¹	9.1 km² (3.5 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	1,198
• Density	130/km² (340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	82089 /82360
Elevation	45–65 m (148–213 ft) (avg. 55 m or 180 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lamagistère (French pronunciation: [lamaʒistɛʁ]; Occitan: La Magistèra) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. Inhabitants of the district are known as les Magistériens.

Geography

The district is located between the larger towns of Agen and Castelsarrasin. The nearest villages are Golfech, Donzac, Clermont-Soubiran, Saint-Urcisse and Saint-Sixte. The Barguelonne forms all of the commune's south-eastern border, then flows into the Garonne, which forms its southern and south-western borders. The commune, which is approximately 9 km², is composed of a small village and surrounding territory.

The Route nationale N113 (national trunk road), used to run through the middle of the village but was later diverted around the town. In 2006, the French government downgraded some national trunk roads to departmental status roads. The N113 was one such road which was downgraded and now the diverted road is signed as the D813. However the historical designation can still be seen in a street sign in the middle of the village.

An old N113 sign in the middle of the village

In fact the middle of the village is also a cross roads with the D30, which commences as a bridge over the Garonne River.

Lamagistère station, on the Bordeaux-Toulouse line, is located in the middle of the town. The village has a public library and a school but lacks, in 2012, a cinema or museum.

History

During the second world war the district was at the heart of a Franco-American sabotage operation. On the night of 15 to 16 August 1944, a section of the train line running between Bordeaux and Toulouse, which was defended by a garrison of German soldiers, was attacked by a combined force of American commandos, French partisans from Lot and a company of the Armée Secrète of Tarn-et-Garonne.^[3]

Demographics

The following table shows the recorded population of the commune according to INSEE.^[4]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,192	—
1975	1,153	−0.47%
1982	1,084	−0.88%
1990	1,248	+1.78%
1999	1,187	−0.56%
2007	1,227	+0.42%
2012	1,120	−1.81%
2017	1,154	+0.60%
Source: INSEE^[4]

Political Administration

The following table shows the names of the elected mayors of the commune in recent times and their period of tenure in the post.

Period	Mayor
2020-2026	Bruno Dousson
2014-2020	Philippe Longo
2008-2014	Bernard Dousson
2001-2008	Bernard Cassagne
1989-2001	André Simon
1960-1989	Jean Geoffroy

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ J. Latu, L’opération de sabotages franco-américaine à Lamagistère, 15-16 août 1944, revue Arkheia, n°1, Montauban, 1999.
^ ^a ^b Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

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