MONTAUBAN, an arrondissement of the department of the Tarn and the Garonne, in France, 632 square miles in extent. It comprehends eleven cantons, which are divided into eighty-three communes, and contain 108,600 inhabitants. The chief city, of the same name, and the seat of a bishop, stands on both sides of the river Tarn, which is navigable, and receives the water of another river near it. It is a well-built city, surrounded with walls and ditches, and is the seat of a Protestant university, which
Montel- has a library of valuable books, and an astronomical observatory. It contains 4000 houses, and 26,500 inhabitants, who are occupied in various manufactures, chiefly of woolen goods, which alone give employment to 15,000 persons. This city was distinguished during the civil wars on account of religion, by its bravery and its sufferings. Long. 1. 15. 46. E. Lat. 44. 0. 50. N.