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Lamagistère (; ) is a commune in the
In fact the middle of the village is also a cross roads with the D30, which commences as a bridge over the Garonne River.
Lamagistère station, on the Bordeaux-Toulouse line, is located in the middle of the town. The village has a public library and a school but lacks, in 2012, a cinema or museum.
L’opération de sabotages franco-américaine à Lamagistère, 15-16 août 1944
, revue Arkheia, n°1, Montauban, 1999.
Tarn-et-Garonne
Tarn-et-Garonne (; ) is a Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania Regions of France, region in Southern France. It is traversed by the rivers Tarn (river), Tarn and Garonne, from which it takes its n ...
department in the Occitanie region
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in southern France
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. Inhabitants of the district are known as
les ''Magistériens''.
Geography
The district is located between the larger towns ofAgen
Agen (, , ) is the prefecture of the Lot-et-Garonne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Southwestern France. It lies on the river Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux. In 2021, the commune had a population of 32,485.
Geography
The city of Agen l ...
and Castelsarrasin
Castelsarrasin (; ) is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Occitanie region of France. The inhabitants are called ''Castelsarrasinois''. It is the second most populous commune in Tarn-et-Garonne after Montauban. It is served by Ca ...
. The nearest villages are
Golfech, Donzac, Clermont-Soubiran, Saint-Urcisse and Saint-Sixte. The Barguelonne
The Barguelonne (; ) is a long river in the Lot (department), Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne and Lot-et-Garonne ''departments of France, départements'', southwestern France. Its source is near Terry, a hamlet in Pern, Lot, Pern. It flows generally southwes ...
forms all of the commune's south-eastern border, then flows into the Garonne
The Garonne ( , ; Catalan language, Catalan, Basque language, Basque and , ;
or ) is a river that flows in southwest France and northern Spain. It flows from the central Spanish Pyrenees to the Gironde estuary at the French port of Bordeaux †...
, which forms its southern and south-western borders. The commune, which is approximately 9 km2, is composed of a small village and surrounding territory.
The Route nationale
A ''route nationale'', or simply ''nationale'', is a class of trunk road in France. They are important roads of national significance which cross broad portions of the French territory, in contrast to departmental or communal roads which serve mo ...
N113 (national trunk road), used to run through the middle of the village but was later diverted
around the town. In 2006, the French government downgraded some national trunk roads to departmental status roads. The N113
was one such road which was downgraded and now the diverted road is signed as the D813. However the historical designation can still be seen in a street sign in the middle of the village.
In fact the middle of the village is also a cross roads with the D30, which commences as a bridge over the Garonne River.
Lamagistère station, on the Bordeaux-Toulouse line, is located in the middle of the town. The village has a public library and a school but lacks, in 2012, a cinema or museum.
History
During the second world war the district was at the heart of a Franco-American sabotage operation. On the night of 15 to 16 August 1944, a section of the train line running between Bordeaux and Toulouse, which was defended by a garrison of German soldiers, was attacked by a combined force of American commandos, French partisans from Lot and a company of the Armée Secrète of Tarn-et-Garonne.J. LatuL’opération de sabotages franco-américaine à Lamagistère, 15-16 août 1944
, revue Arkheia, n°1, Montauban, 1999.
Demographics
The following table shows the recorded population of the commune according to INSEE.Political Administration
The following table shows the names of the elected mayors of the commune in recent times and their period of tenure in the post.See also
*Communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department
The following is a list of the 195 communes of the Tarn-et-Garonne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
References
Communes of Tarn-et-Garonne {{TarnGaronne-geo-stub