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Marmande
Marmande (; in Occitan, ''Marmanda'') is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne ''département'' in south-western France.
Geography
Marmande is located 35 km north-west of Agen, on the southern railway from Bordeaux to Sète. The town is situated at the confluence of the Trec with the Garonne on the right bank of the latter river, which is crossed at this point by a suspension bridge. There is a second bridge to the west of Marmande which connects the D933 from the Toulouse/Bordeaux motorway ( A62) to the new by-pass, opened in July 2009, which now leads to Bergerac and the ''département'' of the Dordogne. Marmande station has rail connections to Agen, Langon and Bordeaux. Marmande ranks 481st in terms of population for the whole of France. A noted producer of tomatoes, a festival dedicated to tomatoes is held annually in July.
History
Marmande was a ''bastide'' founded about 1195 on the site of a more ancient town by Richard Cœur de Lion, who granted it a liberal measure of ...
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Gontaud-de-Nogaret
Gontaud-de-Nogaret (; oc, Gontaud de Nogaret) is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France.
People
The village was the home of Henri Pépin, a prosperous houseowner and cycling enthusiast who employed two helpers to pace him around the Tour de France in 1906. Pépin—sometimes wrongly described as a baron—had no interest in winning the race. Instead, he paid his helpers to lead him to the best restaurants and hotels they could find. Some days they finished more than 12 hours behind the winner.
See also
* Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department
The following is a list of the 319 communes of the French department of Lot-et-Garonne.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2022): [Gontauddenoga ...
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