Saint-Matré

Saint-Matré 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.[2][3]

Saint-Matré
Part of Porte-du-Quercy
The road into Saint-Matré
Location of Saint-Matré
Saint-Matré
Saint-Matré
Coordinates: 44°24′06″N 1°07′13″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentLot
ArrondissementCahors
CantonPuy-l'Évêque
CommunePorte-du-Quercy
Area
1
6.41 km2 (2.47 sq mi)
Population
 (2017)[1]
136
 • Density21/km2 (55/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
46800
Elevation155–276 m (509–906 ft)
(avg. 258 m or 846 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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.[4] No saint is mentioned in the medieval pouillés [n 1], the village being called Samatre.[5][4] 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.[4]

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.[4]

Administration

List of mayors since 1802 :[6]

    • 1802-1804
      • Jean Basset
    • 1804-1809
      • Jean Bessières
    • 1809-1814
      • Armand David
    • 1815-1831
      • Jean-Baptiste Estang
    • 1831-1843
      • Jean Bessières
    • 1843-1855
    • 1855-1863
    • 1863-1878
      • Étienne Frezal
    • 1878-1884
      • Émile Pignier
    • 1884-1902
      • Jean Jordy
    • 2001-2019
      • Christian Bessières
gollark: And magic is able to meddle with people's brains.
gollark: Someone already *realized* the sheer value of lace.
gollark: The obvious explanation is (anti)memetics.
gollark: So there's this thing which is irritating to produce, and a presumably comparatively easy way to make it available to the population of mages, and nobody ever thought "Hmm, maybe I could make lace and exchange goods and services for money"?
gollark: And there aren't mages around who can produce lace anyway? How inefficient.

See also

References and notes

References
  1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2017, INSEE
  2. 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.
  3. Arrêté préfectoral 28 September 2018 (in French)
  4. 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
  5. 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). 9. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale. pp. 408, 780 and 792.
  6. "Les anciens Maires de Saint-Matré" [The former mayors of Saint-Matré]. annuaire-mairie.fr. 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2019.
  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.

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.[7]



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