Montégut-Lauragais (; oc, Montagut de Lauragués) is a
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 ...
in the
Haute-Garonne
Haute-Garonne (; oc, Nauta Garona, ; en, Upper Garonne) is a department in the Occitanie region of Southwestern France. Named after the river Garonne, which flows through the department. Its prefecture and main city is Toulouse, the country' ...
department in southwestern
France
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.
Population
Notable people
* 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). His name by then was ''Charlie Hilsberg''.
[''Un enfant sans ombre, parcours d'une vie.'' Shaul Harel, 2018, 455pp.] As he and his family went back to Brussels thereafter, he survived war with the help of the ''
Comité de Défense des Juifs
The Committee for the Defence of Jews (french: Comité de Défense des Juifs, or CDJ; nl, Joods Verdedigingscomiteit, JVD) was a group within the Belgian Resistance, affiliated to the Front de l'Indépendance, founded by the Jewish Communist Her ...
'' and notably to
Andrée Geulen-Herscovici, an active resistant.
See also
*
Communes of the Haute-Garonne department
References
Communes of Haute-Garonne
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