Puylaurens
Puylaurens Puèglaurenç |
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region | Occitania | |
Department | Camouflage | |
Arrondissement | Castres | |
Canton | Le Pastel | |
Community association | Sor et l'Agout | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 34 ' N , 2 ° 1' E | |
height | 147-372 m | |
surface | 81.82 km 2 | |
Residents | 3,236 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 40 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 81700 | |
INSEE code | 81219 | |
Website | http://www.puylaurens.fr/ | |
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Puylaurens ( Occitan : Puèglaurenç ) is a southern French municipality with 3236 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Tarn department in the Occitania region . Puylaurens belongs to the Arrondissement of Castres and the canton of Le Pastel . The inhabitants are called Puylaurentais .
geography
Puylaurens is located in the Lauragais cultural landscape , about 50 kilometers east of Toulouse on the Girou River . Puylaurens is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Guitalens in the north, Vielmur-sur-Agout in the northeast, Sémalens in the east, Saint-Germain-des-Prés and Lempaut in the southeast, Blan and Poudis in the south, Montgey , Péchaudier and Saint-Sernin-lès- Lavaur in the south-west, Cuq-Toulza , Lacroisille and Appelle in the west, Bertre , Prades and Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux in the north-west.
Route nationale 126 (the former route nationale 621) runs through the municipality .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2011 |
Residents | 3,088 | 2,936 | 2,782 | 2,778 | 2,708 | 2,792 | 2,891 | 3,235 |
Personalities
- Guillaume de Puylaurens (around 1200 – after 1275), priest and chronicler of the Albigensian Crusade
- Antoine de L'Age (1602–1635), lord of Puylaurens
- Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix de Castries (1727–1801), Lord of Puylaurens
- Georges Frêche (1938-2010), politician
- Anne Laperrouze (* 1956), politician