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Part of Porte-du-Quercy in Occitania, France
Saint-Matré
Part of Porte-du-Quercy
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Location of Saint-Matré
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Coordinates: 44°24′06″N 1°07′13″E / 44.4017°N 1.1203°E / 44.4017; 1.1203
CountryFrance
RegionOccitania
DepartmentLot
ArrondissementCahors
CantonPuy-l'Évêque
CommunePorte-du-Quercy
Area6.41 km (2.47 sq mi)
Population146
 • Density23/km (59/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code46800
Elevation155–276 m (509–906 ft)
(avg. 258 m or 846 ft)
French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Matré (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ matʁe]; Languedocien: Sent Matre) is a former commune in the Lot department in south-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Porte-du-Quercy.

Etymology

A local tradition according to which the toponym was derived from St. Amator is rather doubtful given the old forms of the name that have come down to us. No saint is mentioned in the medieval pouillés , the village being called Samatre. A 14th century pouillé mentions Samayré. We can find Samatré or Samatan in the 15th century texts, then Saint-Mathié in 1526 and Saint-Matré du Crucifix in 1679.

So we see there is no question of any Christian influence to the toponym. Its name could derive from a Gallo-Roman domain belonging to a certain Samitius, but there are no archaeological data to support such a view.

Administration

List of mayors since 1802 :

  • 1802-1804: Jean Basset
  • 1804-1809: Jean Bessières
  • 1809-1814: Armand David
  • 1815-1831: Jean-Baptiste Estang
  • 1831-1843: Jean Bessières
  • 1843-1855: Paul David
  • 1855-1863: Jean Bessières
  • 1863-1878: Étienne Frezal
  • 1878-1884: Émile Pignier
  • 1884-1902: Jean Jordy
  • 2001-2019: Christian Bessières

See also

Notes

  1. pouillés: French ecclesiastical cadastral registers, official documents that provide a comprehensive picture of the dioceses under the Ancien Regime in France.
  2. Former mayor Paul David. who was still a member of the Municipal Council in the years 1856 to 1857, resigned from the Council in troubled circumstances on July 28, 1857.

References

  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
  2. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Matré, EHESS (in French).
  3. Quet, Didier (January 11, 2019). "Derniers vœux de Saint-Matré, commune fondatrice de Porte-du-Quercy" [Last wishes of Saint-Matré, founding commune of Porte-du-Quercy]. actu.fr. La Vie Quercynoise. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  4. Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018 (in French)
  5. ^ Cassagne, Jean-Marie; Korsak, Mariola (2013). Villes et Villages en pays lotois [Cities and Villages of Quercy] (in French). Vayrac: Tertium éditions. p. 254. Saint-Matré
  6. De Font-Réaulx, Jacques; Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (1962). Recueil des historiens de la France: Pouillés [Collection of historians of France: Pouillés] (in French). Vol. 9. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. pp. 408, 780 and 792.
  7. David, Paul (1857). Mémoire pour dégager une question d'intérêt communal [Mémoire for bringing out a common interest question for a city] (in French). Toulouse: Imprimerie V. Sens et P. Savy. p. 34.

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