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MON'TARAN I'SLANDS, a clufter of fmall iflands 
in the Eaftern Indian Sea. Lat. 2. 27. S. Ion. 108. 30. E. 
MONTARCHE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Rhone and Loire : twelve miles fouth of 
Montbrifon. 
MONTARGI'L, a town of Portugal, in Eftramadura : 
twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft of Santarem, and thirty- 
three north-north-weft of Evora. 
MONTARGI'S, ^ town of France, and principal place 
of a diftritft, in the department of the Loiret: fifteen pofts 
north of Nevers, and thirteen and a half fouth of Paris. 
Lat. 47. 59. N. Ion. 2.48. E. 
MONTARGON' (Robert-Francis de), a French monk, 
and writer of fome works which are held in efteem, was 
born at Paris in the year 1705. He entered the monaftery 
of Hermits of St. Auguftine at the Place des Viftoires, 
when he changed his name to that of Father Hyacinth of 
the AJfumption. He was much admired as a preacher, and 
was honoured with the title of almoner to king Staniflaus. 
In 1770, he had the misfortune to lofe his life at Plom- 
bieres, about the age of fixty-five, owing to a flood which 
inundated that city during the night of the 25th of July. 
Among his other productions, he publilhed, 1. A trea- 
tife on Sacred Eloquence. 2. The Hiftory of the Infti- 
tution of the Feftival of the Holy Sacrament. 3. An 
Apoftolical Dictionary, 13 vols. 8vo. Gen. Hiog\ 
MONTARIN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Gard : twelve miles north of Nifines. 
MONTARO'RO, a town of Naples, in Principato 
Citra : nine miles north of Salerno. 
MONTAS'SET, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lozere : fixteen miles weft-north-weft of Mende. 
MONTASTRUC', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Garonne : twenty-four miles north- 
weft of Revel, and nine north-eaft of Touloufe. 
MONTASTRUC', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Gers : ten miles north of Auch. 
MONTATER'RE, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Oife : fix miles north-weft of Senlis. 
MONTAUBAN', a town of France, and principal place 
of a diftriCt, in the department of the Lot, on the Tarn, 
with 21,959 inhabitants. Before the revolution it was 
the fee of a bilhop. Its principal trade confifts in woollen 
ftuffs. This town was builtin the year 1144, by Alphonfo 
count of Touloufe. In 1205, it was taken by John king 
of England. In the year 1562 the inhabitants became 
Proteftants, and fortified the city fo ftrongly, that 
Louis XIII. befieged it without fuccefs in the year 1621 ; 
and was notable to reduce it till 1629, when its fortifi¬ 
cations were razed. It is feven pofts and a half fouth of 
Cahors, and feventy-nine and a half fouth-fouth-weft of 
Paris. Lat. 44. 1. N. Ion. 1.26. E. 
MONTAUBAN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Drome : fixteen miles eaft of Nions. 
MONTAUBAN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Ille and Vilaine : five miles north-weft of Mont- 
fort, and fifteen weft-north-weft of Rennes. 
MONTAUBGiU'F, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Charente: eighteen miles north-eaft of An- 
gouleme. 
MONTAU'D, a town of France, in the department of 
the Rhone and Loire : nine miles fouth of St. Etienne. 
MONTAUDIN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Mayenne : five miles north of Ernee, and fourteen 
weft-north-weft of Mayenne. 
MONTAU'K POI'NT, the eaftern extremity of Long 
Ifland, belonging to the ftate of New York. 
MONTAUSIE'R (Charles de Sainte Maure, Duke of), 
born in 1610, was delcended from an ancient family ori¬ 
ginally from Touraine. He was educated a Proteftant; 
but afterwards conformed to the eftabliftied religioh. Of 
unlhaken loyalty, he kept under obedience to the king 
during the war of the Fronde the provinces of Saintonge 
and Angoumois, of which he was governor. Being af¬ 
terwards governor of Normandy, in which poll he had 
met with much oppofition and difguft, as foon as he heard 
MON 
that the plague had broken out in the country, he haf- 
tened thither, contrary to the remonftrances of his fa¬ 
mily, regarding refidence as an ablolute duty on fuch an 
emergency. His high charadlrer caufed him to be chofen 
to prefide -over the education of the dauphin, fon of 
Louis XIV. and it was his perpetual care to inculcate 
into his pupil the principles of virtue, and accuftom him 
to hear the truth. He afliduoufly kept from him all thole 
court-flatterers who are the bane of a young prince, and 
would never fufter him to read the adulatory dedications 
which the men of letters were continually addrefling to 
him. He once led the dauphin into a cottage, and faid to 
him, “ Behold, fir, the miferable roof under which are 
lodged the father, the mother, and the children, who in- 
cefiantly labour to procure the gold with which your pa¬ 
laces are adorned, and who pine with hunger to fiupply 
the luxuries of your table.” When the education of the 
prince was completed, Montaufier took leave of him in 
the following words : “ Sir, if you are a man of worth, 
you will love me ; if otherwife,. you will hate me, and I 
lhall confole myfelf.” His letter to the dauphin after the 
furrender of Philiplburg has been much admired : “Ido 
not compliment your royal highnefs on the capture of 
Philiplburg ; you had a fine army, bombs, connon, and 
Vauban : neither do I praife you for your bravery; it is 
an hereditary virtue in your houfe : but I felicitate my¬ 
felf that you are humane, affable, generous, liberal in dif- 
playing the fervices of others, and referved in mentioning 
ycur own.” D'Alembert finds fomething of the courtier 
in the allufion to the hereditary valour of the Bourbons ; 
but furely a little fweetening was allowable in con¬ 
veying fo fine a moral lefion. The duke always pre- 
lerved the character of a philofopher at court, and was 
the conftant friend of honour and decorum, and the enemy 
ot vice and meannefs. He was fo conl'picuous for a kind 
of auftere fincerity, that Moliere’s charaiter of the Mi- 
fanthrope was thought to be modelled after him. Some 
enemies of that admirable writer infinuated this to the 
duke, and he went to fee the play : on leaving the theatre, 
“ Would to God (faid he) that I really refembled Mo¬ 
liere’s Mifanthrope!” He was accuftomed to fpeak bold 
truths even to Louis XIV. an inftance of which, highly 
to his honour, is mentioned in the article of Madame 
Dacier, vol. v. p. 556. Though free in his cenfures of 
moral depravity, he did not approve the trade of a fatirift, 
and exprefled himfelf warmly againft the fatirical pieces 
of Boileau. He had himfelf written fatires in his youth, 
but perhaps not of the perfonal kind. This truly re- 
fpedtable nobleman died in 1690 at the age of eighty, re¬ 
gretted by all men of worth, jD'A lembert, Eloges Acad. 
MONTAU'T, a town of France, in the department of 
the Landes: four miles well-fouth-weft of St. Sever, and 
nine fouth-eaft of Tarbes. 
MONTAtjjjr de CRIEU', a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Arriege : twelve miles north-weft of 
Mirepoix. 
MONTAUT le JEA'NE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lot and Garonne : fix miles north-weft 
of Monflanquin, and nine eaft of Lauzun. 
MONTAU'TO, a town of Naples, in Principato Ultra ; 
five miles north of Benevento. 
MONTAW', a town of Pruflia, in Pomereliaj eight 
miles fouth-weft of Marienburg. 
MONTBAR'REY, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Jura, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tricft of Dole. The place contains 434, and the canton 
6727, inhabitants. 
MONTB A'RT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Cote d’Or: thirty-four miles north-weft of Dijon, and 
nine north of Semuren Auxois. Lat.47.36.N- Ion.4.23.E. 
MONTBAZO'N, a town of France, in the department 
of theHerault: ten miles louth-weft of Montpellier. 
MONTBAZO'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre and Loire : feven miles fouth of Tours, and 
fifteen north-weft of Loches. 
MONTBELIA'RD, a town of France, in the depart- 
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