Duras, Lot-et-Garonne
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Duras (; ) is a commune in the
Lot-et-Garonne Lot-et-Garonne (, ) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the rivers Lot and Garonne, it had a population of 331,271 in 2019.department in south-western
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. The town is traversed by the Dropt river.


Notable people

* David Hume of Godscroft (1558-1629), Scottish historian and philosopher, was the pastor in Duras 1604–1614. *The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914–1996) took the
pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true meaning ( orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individual's o ...
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Marguerite Duras Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (, 4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras (), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film ''Hiroshima mon amour'' (1959) ea ...
" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.


Sister cities

Duras is twinned with the following cities: * Sint-Truiden, Belgium


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 2025):


References

Communes of Lot-et-Garonne Agenais {{LotGaronne-geo-stub