Mont-de-Marsan

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Mont-de-Marsan
Prefecture and commune
Confluence of the Douze and Midou rivers
Coat of arms
Location of Mont-de-Marsan
Mont-de-Marsan Show map of France Mont-de-Marsan Show map of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Coordinates: 43°53′N 0°30′W / 43.89°N 0.50°W / 43.89; -0.50
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Mont-de-Marsan
Canton	Mont-de-Marsan-1 and 2
Intercommunality	Mont-de-Marsan Agglomération
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Charles Dayot[1]
Area 1	36.88 km2 (14.24 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	31,455
• Density	850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	40192 /40000
Elevation	23–97 m (75–318 ft) (avg. 63 m or 207 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mont-de-Marsan (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ də maʁsɑ̃]; Occitan: Lo Mont de Marçan^[3]) is a commune and capital of the Landes department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France.^[4]

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 4,000 —     1800 2,866 −4.65% 1806 5,256 +10.64% 1821 3,065 −3.53% 1831 3,774 +2.10% 1836 4,082 +1.58% 1841 4,465 +1.81% 1846 4,684 +0.96% 1851 4,655 −0.12% 1856 5,210 +2.28% 1861 5,574 +1.36% 1866 8,455 +8.69% 1872 8,138 −0.63% 1876 9,310 +3.42% 1881 10,878 +3.16% 1886 11,760 +1.57% 1891 12,031 +0.46% 1896 11,274 −1.29%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 11,604 +0.58% 1906 11,923 +0.54% 1911 12,091 +0.28% 1921 10,836 −1.09% 1926 12,134 +2.29% 1931 11,854 −0.47% 1936 13,009 +1.88% 1946 14,055 +0.78% 1954 17,120 +2.50% 1962 20,191 +2.08% 1968 24,444 +3.24% 1975 26,166 +0.98% 1982 27,326 +0.62% 1990 28,328 +0.45% 1999 29,489 +0.45% 2007 30,212 +0.30% 2012 31,018 +0.53% 2017 29,554 −0.96%
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Source: EHESS[5] and INSEE (1968-2017)[6]

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The French Air and Space Force operates the Constantin Rozanoff Mont-de-Marsan Air Base about 2 kilometres north of the town. The base includes CEAM (the French air force military experimentation and trials organisation), an air defense radar command reporting centre and an air defence control training site. Mont-de-Marsan Air Base was formerly home to France's first operational squadron of nuclear bombers, the Dassault Mirage IVA.

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• The Donjon Lacataye is the keep of a 14th-century castle
• Despiau-Wlérick Museum (1930s sculpture by two local artists)
• Dubalen Museum
• Maréchal Foch's equestrian statue

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Stade Montois Club Omnisports is the city's main sports club: Stade Montois rugby and Stade Montois football are especially well-known. The city has around 9,000 sports licensees, which represents nearly 30% of its total population.

Two historic punk rock music festivals were held in Mont-de-Marsan's bullring in 1976 and 1977.

The Festival Arte Flamenco international festival was established 1989 in Mont-de-Marsan by the council of the Landes department and is the largest Flamenco festival outside of Spain.

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Overall, three sectors dominate the economic activity of Mont-de-Marsan:

• The agri-food sector: centered around poultry (duck, chicken, foie gras), and primarily corn, with major companies based here (Delpeyrat, Maïsadour…);
• The forestry sector: several companies contribute to the activities of the Industries and Future Maritime Pine competitiveness cluster;
• The Military Aeronautical Experimentation Center: the Mont-de-Marsan Air Base (BA 118) is one of the main operational bases for the French Air Force.

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• Joël Bats, association football goalkeeper (1957 – )
• Patrick Biancone, horse racing trainer, (1952 – )
• Pierre Bosquet, Marshal of France, (1810–1861)
• Thomas Castaignède, rugby union footballer, (1975 – )
• Charles Despiau, sculptor, (1874–1946)
• Pierre Gensous, trade unionist, (1925–2017)
• Alain Juppé, politician and former Prime Minister of France, (1945 – )
• Gaëtan Laborde, association football player, (1994 - )
• Romain Larrieu, association football goalkeeper (1976 – )
• Louis-Anselme Longa, painter, (1809–1869)
• Abdoulaye Loum, basketball player
• Jean van de Velde, golfer, (1966 – )
• Fabien Vehlmann, comics writer, (1972 – )
• Geneviève Darrieussecq, the mayor of Mont-de-Marsan (2008–2017) and since 2017 Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, (1956 – )

Mont-de-Marsan is twinned with:

• Tudela, Navarre, Spain
• Alingsås, Sweden

• André Abbal
• Bull-leaping

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