Monts, Indre-et-Loire

Monts
Commune
Château de Candé
Coat of arms
Location of Monts
Monts Monts
Coordinates: 47°16′41″N 0°37′31″E
Country	France
Region	Centre-Val de Loire
Department	Indre-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Tours
Canton	Monts
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Laurent Richard
Area 1	27.28 km2 (10.53 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	7,914
• Density	290/km2 (750/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	37159 /37260
Elevation	47–99 m (154–325 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Monts (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃] ) is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France.

It was here at the Château de Candé on 3 June 1937 that The Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII, married the twice-divorced Wallis Warfield Simpson for whom he had abdicated the throne of Britain and the Empire.

They have an association football team playing in the Promotion d'Honneur de Centre, the eighth division of the French football league system. They are called AS Monts. They were founded in 1924 and play at the Stade des Griffonnes. Their kit is blue.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,102 —     1800 1,125 +0.30% 1806 1,274 +2.09% 1821 1,343 +0.35% 1831 1,155 −1.50% 1836 1,178 +0.40% 1841 1,212 +0.57% 1846 1,297 +1.36% 1851 1,205 −1.46% 1856 1,209 +0.07% 1861 1,317 +1.73% 1866 1,409 +1.36% 1872 1,434 +0.29% 1876 1,652 +3.60% 1881 1,551 −1.25% 1886 1,522 −0.38% 1891 1,503 −0.25% 1896 1,514 +0.15%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 1,430 −1.14% 1906 1,502 +0.99% 1911 1,561 +0.77% 1921 1,582 +0.13% 1926 1,486 −1.24% 1931 1,515 +0.39% 1936 1,649 +1.71% 1946 1,784 +0.79% 1954 2,129 +2.23% 1962 2,053 −0.45% 1968 3,506 +9.33% 1975 4,480 +3.56% 1982 5,421 +2.76% 1990 6,221 +1.74% 1999 6,514 +0.51% 2007 6,973 +0.85% 2012 7,246 +0.77% 2017 7,794 +1.47%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

See also

• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department