Montaud, Hérault

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Coordinates: 43°45′07″N 3°57′23″E / 43.75194, 3.95638

Administration
Commune of Montaud
Location

Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Hérault
Arrondissement	Montpellier
Canton	Castries
Intercommunality	communauté d'agglomération de Montpellier
Mayor	M. Pierre Combettes (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	51 m–210 m (avg. 110 m)
Land area^¹	12.92 km²
Population^² (1999)	616
- Density	47/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	34164/ 34160
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Montaud is a commune of the Hérault département, in the région of Languedoc-Roussillon, southern France.

Montaud is a mountain village with approximately 450 inhabitants living in a dozen hamlets. It contains a school, a city hall, a church, and a few farms. Most inhabitants of Montaud work in nearby Grenoble, in the French Alps, many as researchers, teachers, engineers and technicians.

[edit] History and trivia

French Cardinal, Bertrand Pierre (Cardinal de Colombier), who was used by the popes at Avignon for agent in wartime missions during the Hundred Years War and in the election of Charles of Bohemia to the imperial throne, died in Montaud in 1361^[1].

The composer Jules Massenet was born in Montaud in 1842^[2].

Montaud is located in the North of the Vercors, an important site of the French Resistance during World War II.

Children from the primary school of Montaud participated in a "spacetalk" via ARISS radio contact with astronaut Mike Finckle, aboard the International Space Station in 2004 ^[3].