Touzac, Lot

Touzac
The Source Bleue The Source Bleue
Touzac
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Touzac
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Lot
Arrondissement	Cahors
Canton	Puy-l'Évêque
Area1	4.9 km2 (1.9 sq mi)
Population (2010)2	355
• Density	72/km2 (190/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	46321 / 46700
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.

Touzac is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.

Situated in a bend of the picturesque river Lot, many of its buildings date from the 1840s and 1850s and were constructed in a wave of economic development that followed the opening of the metallurgical factory in nearby Fumel. Today, after the factory in Fumel has seen most of its operations moved to Spain in the 1970s and 1980s (a loss of some 3500 jobs) and after the decline of agriculture, Touzac, like many other villages in the area, is becoming a popular tourist destination.

One of its attractions is La source bleue, a blue spring near the river. Next to the spring is a water mill, and the domaine is now a hotel and restaurant named for the spring. Marguerite Moreno lived here during World War II.

Population

• 1793: 461
• 1800: 830
• 1821: 829
• 1831: 1028
• 1836: 972
• 1841: 457
• 1846: 446
• 1851: 459
• 1856: 445
• 1861: 435
• 1866: 423
• 1872: 417
• 1876: 428
• 1881: 414
• 1886: 414
• 1891: 404
• 1896: 383
• 1901: 353
• 1906: 334
• 1911: 338
• 1921: 279
• 1926: 274
• 1931: 293
• 1936: 274
• 1946: 290
• 1962: 376
• 1968: 406
• 1975: 382
• 1982: 417
• 1990: 412
• 1999: 341
• 2006: 345
• 2008: 351
• 2011: 359

Notable people

• Marguerite Moreno, actress, died in Touzac in 1948

See also

• Communes of the Lot department