Montdardier

View of the village of Montdardier

Montdardier
Montdardier and the Tude forest
Coat of arms
Montdardier
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region  Montdardier
Coordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°ECoordinates: 43°55′42″N 3°35′33″E / 43.9283°N 3.5925°E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Le Vigan
Canton	Le Vigan
Intercommunality	Pays viganais
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Daniel Carrière
Area^1	35.25 km^2 (13.61 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	193
• Density	5.5/km^2 (14/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	30176 / 30120
Elevation	259–889 m (850–2,917 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Montdardier is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	466	—
1800	432	−7.3%
1806	601	+39.1%
1821	714	+18.8%
1831	698	−2.2%
1836	715	+2.4%
1841	727	+1.7%
1846	700	−3.7%
1851	738	+5.4%
1856	677	−8.3%
1861	672	−0.7%
1866	616	−8.3%
1872	577	−6.3%
1876	569	−1.4%
1881	578	+1.6%
1886	581	+0.5%
1891	743	+27.9%
1896	885	+19.1%
1901	918	+3.7%
1906	1,051	+14.5%
1911	870	−17.2%
1921	558	−35.9%
1926	466	−16.5%
1931	424	−9.0%
1936	340	−19.8%
1946	324	−4.7%
1954	316	−2.5%
1962	273	−13.6%
1968	215	−21.2%
1975	197	−8.4%
1982	178	−9.6%
1990	157	−11.8%
1999	187	+19.1%
2008	193	+3.2%

Sights

• The castle in neo-gothic style
• La Tude massif
• The church

Several quarries above Montdardier were formerly important sources of lithographic limestone. Stone from these quarries, marketed as Vigan stone, earned an honorable mention in the Great Exhibition of 1851.^[1]

Montdardier's castle

See also

• Communes of the Gard department
• Causse de Blandas

References

• INSEE

1. Class I, Report on Mining, Quarrying, Metallurgical Operations, and Mineral Products, Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into Which the Exhibition was Divided, Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851, Clowes, London, 1852; page 28.