commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
department
Department may refer to:
* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
in southern
France
France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
.
Industries
The
Compagnie minière de Carmaux
The Compagnie minière de Carmaux (Carmaux Mining Company), or Société des mines de Carmaux, was one of the first coal mining companies in France.
It was founded in 1752 in the isolated Carmaux basin.
The company was at first slow to expand and m ...
has its origins in a coal mining concession granted in 1852 to
Gabriel de Solages
Gabriel de Solages (19 August 1711 – 28 July 1799) was a French soldier and industrialist. After serving in Italy, Germany and Bohemia he began exploiting coal mines on the family property near Carmaux in the Tarn (department), Tarn department of ...
, which became the
Compagnie minière de Carmaux
The Compagnie minière de Carmaux (Carmaux Mining Company), or Société des mines de Carmaux, was one of the first coal mining companies in France.
It was founded in 1752 in the isolated Carmaux basin.
The company was at first slow to expand and m ...
. He also founded a glass bottle factory, fueled by the coal.
Carmaux was famous for its industries of
coal mining
Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...
(from the thirteenth century to 2000) and its
glassworks
Glass production involves two main methods – the float glass process that produces sheet glass, and glassblowing that produces bottles and other containers. It has been done in a variety of ways during the history of glass.
Glass container ...
(from the eighteenth century to 1931).
Geography
The
Cérou
The Cérou (french: le Cérou) is an long river in the Aveyron and Tarn departments in southern France. Its source is at Saint-Jean-Delnous, northwest of the village. It flows generally west-northwest. It is a left tributary of the Aveyron, i ...
flows northwestward through the commune and crosses the town.
Carmaux station
Carmaux is a railway station in Carmaux, Occitanie, France. The station opened in 1906. It is on the Toulouse to Rodez railway line. The station is served by Intercités de nuit (night train) and TER
Ter or TER may refer to:
Places
* River T ...
has rail connections to Toulouse, Albi and Rodez.
Demographics
Famous residents
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Bernard Lazare
Bernard Lazare (14 June 1865, Nîmes – 1 September 1903, Paris) was a French literary critic, political journalist, polemicist, and anarchist. He was also among the first Dreyfusards.
Life
Lazare's initial contact with symbolists introduced h ...
:
journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
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Jean Jaurès
Auguste Marie Joseph Jean Léon Jaurès (3 September 185931 July 1914), commonly referred to as Jean Jaurès (; oc, Joan Jaurés ), was a French Socialist leader. Initially a Moderate Republican, he later became one of the first social demo ...
:
politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
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Jack Cantoni
Jack Cantoni (11 May 1948 – 25 June 2013) was a French international rugby union player.
Cantoni was born in Carmaux, France, he is the son of the rugby league footballer; Vincent Cantoni.
Cantoni played as a Fullback or Wing for AS Bé ...