History

• The Saint-Martin Chapel was mentioned in 847.
• Protestant population: the town was devastated during the French Wars of Religion
  French Wars of Religion
  The French Wars of Religion is the name given to a period of civil infighting and military operations, primarily fought between French Catholics and Protestants . The conflict involved the factional disputes between the aristocratic houses of France, such as the House of Bourbon and House of Guise...
  
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• The feudal castle
  Castle
  A castle is a type of fortified structure built in Europe and the Middle East during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble...
  
  , Château de Lavagnac, was dismantled in the 17th century on the orders of Richelieu and remodelled in accordance with the tastes of the day. It is currently the subject of an enormous tourism project which is opposed by a minority of the local population.

Demography

Personalities linked to the commune

• Jean Henri Latude
  Jean Henri Latude
  Jean Henri Latude , often called Danry or Masers de Latude, was a French writer famous for his lengthy confinement in the Bastille, at Vincennes, and for his repeated escapes from those prisons.-Life:...
  
  , French prisoner, famous for his escapes
• Paula Delsol, novelist and film director.
• Charles Camichel (1871–1966) physician born in Montagnac.

Sites and monuments

• Église Saint-André* 12th/14th century : steeple, open tower, doorway with arching and colonnettes, machicolated porch, choir with seven stretches of vaulted wall, 15th century stone bas-relief of Christ, 16th century wooden statue of St Peter, painting of the Holy Family by Bestieu from 1830, four caryatid
  Caryatid
  A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The Greek term karyatides literally means "maidens of Karyai", an ancient town of Peloponnese...
  
  s from 1750 and 1759, wooden Virgin from 1780, 18th century pulpit, an 18th century main altar; eleven 17th century stalls, bell from 1492

• Chapelle Saint-Martin de la Garrigue 12th century : blind arcade
  Blind arcade
  A blind arcade is an arcade that is composed of a series of arches that has no actual openings and that is applied to the surface of a wall as a decorative element: i.e. the arches are not windows or openings but are part of the masonry face. It is designed as an ornamental architectural element,...
  
  s, half domed apse
  Apse
  In architecture, the apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome...
  
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• Chapelle des pénitents 18th century.
• Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Peyrière 19th century.
• Hôtel de Rat.

• Hôtel de Pegat.

External links

• Official site of the town of Montagnac
• Base de Loisirs de Bessilles at Montagnac (decouverte34.com)
• Fiche Station Verte de Montagnac
• Montagnac on the site of the Institut géographique national