Private mansion Lefranc de Pompignan

  • Historic site and monument
  • Historic patrimony
  • Mansion
10 rue Armand-Cambon, 82000 Montauban
Built at the end of the 17th century, this grand hotel between courtyard and garden was home to the poet Jean Jacques Lefranc Pompignan (1709-1784), lawyer, founder of the Academy of Montauban and member of the French Academy.
In the nineteenth century, it was sold to the family of Armand Cambon, painter and first curator of the museum Ingres.
We enter the main courtyard by a large semicircular portal whose staple is decorated with a shouting warrior's head. The entrance is framed by engaged columns, treated in bosses, surmounted by an entablature decorated with a frieze with metopes and modillions, and a semicircular pediment.
The transom of the grille bears the monogram of Gustave Cambon, brother of the...

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Private mansion Lefranc de Pompignan
10 rue Armand-Cambon, 82000 Montauban
Updated on 11 August 2022 at 12:20
by Office de Tourisme du Grand Montauban
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