Tarn-et-Garonne is a department in the Occitania region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn and Garonne,from which it takes its name. The area was originally part of the former provinces of Quercy and Languedoc. The department was created in 1808 under Napoleon,with territory taken from the neighbouring Lot,Haute-Garonne,Lot-et-Garonne,Gers and Aveyron departments.
The Radical Party of the Left is a social-liberal political party in France. A party in the Radical tradition,since 1972 the PRG was a close ally of the major party of the centre-left in France,the Socialist Party. After the 2017 presidential and legislative elections,negotiations to merge the PRG with the Radical Party began and the refounding congress to reunite the parties into the Radical Movement was held on 9 and 10 December 2017. However,a faction of ex-PRG members,including its last president Sylvia Pinel,split from the Radical Movement in February 2019 due to its expected alliance with La République En Marche in the European elections and resurrected the PRG.
La Dépêche,formally La Dépêche du Midi,is a regional daily newspaper published in Toulouse in Southwestern France with seventeen editions for different areas of the Midi-Pyrénées region. The main local editions are for Toulouse,Ariège,Aude,Aveyron,Haute-Garonne,Gers,Lot,Lot-et-Garonne,Hautes-Pyrénées,Tarn and Tarn-et-Garonne.
Gilles Savary is a French politician who served as Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France.
RenéBousquet was a high-ranking French political appointee who served as secretary general to the Vichy French police from May 1942 to 31 December 1943. For personal heroism,he had become a protégéof prominent officials before the war and had risen rapidly in the government.
Verdun-sur-Garonne is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Montricoux is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France. It is located along the banks of the Aveyron,between Nègrepelisse and Bruniquel. The written history of the commune dates back to the eighth century. The Château de Montricoux,built by the Knights Templar,now houses the Marcel-Lenoir Museum,which preserves 130 drawings,pastels,watercolors,oils,and frescoes by this artist,a resident of the town.
Saint-Michel is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Montjoi is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in southern France
The departmental councils of France are representative assemblies elected by universal suffrage in 98 of the country's 101 departments. Prior to the 2015 French departmental elections they were known as general councils.
Sylvia Pinel is a French politician who served as a member of the National Assembly of France from 2016 to 2022,representing the 2nd constituency in the Tarn-et-Garonne department. Since 3 September 2016,she has been the leader of the moderate and social-liberal centre-left Radical Party of the Left.
Pierre-RenéLemas is a French civil servant. He served as the Chief of Staff of the French President,François Hollande from 2012 to 2014. He has served as the Chairman of the Caisse des dépôts et consignations since 2014.
François Jean Léon de Maleville was a French politician. Under the July Monarchy he was a deputy from 1834 to 1848. During the French Second Republic he was a representative in the Constituent Assembly in 1848–49,and was Minister of the Interior for a few days in 1848. He was a representative in the Legislative Assembly in 1849-52,and was again elected as representative in 1871-75,and as Senator from 1875 until his death in 1879.
The canton of Garonne-Lomagne-Brulhois is an administrative division of the Tarn-et-Garonne department,in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Nicolas-de-la-Grave.
Jeanine Dubié is a politician,a former member of the National Assembly of France,where she represented the 2nd constituency of the Hautes-Pyrénées from 2012 to 2022.
Adrien Joseph Prax-Paris was a French politician who was a Bonapartist deputy for Tarn-et-Garonne during the Second French Empire and the French Third Republic.
Évelyne Baylet was a French company director. She served between 1959 and 1995 as president of the La Dépêche du Midi newspaper group,while pursuing a parallel career as a regional politician.
Jacques Hébrard was a French journalist and politician. He was Senator for French India from 1882 to 1891,and Senator for Corsica from 1894 to 1903.
L'Express du Midi was a daily newspaper published in Toulouse and serving that city as well as the surrounding Haute-Garonne region in southern France. It was published between 1891 and 1938.
