Montauban it Toulouse's little pink-brick sister and the capital of the 17th-century "Protestant Republic" of southern France. The painter Ingres was born here en 1780, and the town's great treasure is the
Musée Ingres. Montauban centre count with a double-arcaded main square built in the 17th and 18th centuries and the withe Cathédrale Notre-Dame, built on the orders of Louis XIV in 1692.
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