Saint-Matré
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(avg. 258 m or 846 ft)
Saint-Matré (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ matʁe]; Languedocien: Sent Matre) is a former commune in the Lot department in south-western France.[2] On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune of Porte-du-Quercy.[3][4]
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.[5] No saint is mentioned in the medieval pouillés [n 1], the village being called Samatre.[6][5] 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.[5]
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.[5]
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 [n 2]
- 1863-1878: Étienne Frezal
- 1878-1884: Émile Pignier
- 1884-1902: Jean Jordy
- 2001-2019: Christian Bessières
See also
Notes
- ^ pouillés: French ecclesiastical cadastral registers, official documents that provide a comprehensive picture of the dioceses under the Ancien Regime in France.
- ^ 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.[7]
References
- ^ Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Saint-Matré, EHESS (in French).
- ^ 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.
- ^ Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018 (in French)
- ^ a b c d 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
External links
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