Lot-et-Garonne
—  Department  —
Coat of arms of Lot-et-Garonne Coat of arms
Location of Lot-et-Garonne in France
Coordinates: 44°20′N 00°30′E / 44.333°N 0.5°E / 44.333; 0.5Coordinates: 44°20′N 00°30′E / 44.333°N 0.5°E / 44.333; 0.5
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine
Prefecture	Agen
Subprefectures	Marmande Nérac Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Government
• President of the General Council	Pierre Camani (Socialist Party)
Area1
• Total	5,361 km2 (2,070 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	324,170
• Rank	72nd
• Density	60/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Department number	47
Arrondissements	4
Cantons	40
Communes	319
^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2

Lot-et-Garonne (French: [lɔt‿e ɡaʁɔn], Occitan: Òlt e Garona) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers.

History[link]

Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the provinces of Guyenne and Gascogne.

Several of the original southeastern cantons in the arrondissements of Agen and Villeneuve-sur-Lot were separated from it in 1808 to become a part of the newly ceated department of Tarn-et-Garonne.

Geography[link]

Lot-et-Garonne is part of the current region of Aquitaine and is surrounded by the departments of Lot, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Landes, Gironde, and Dordogne.

Economy[link]

Food-processing, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals are all major industries of the department.

Demographics[link]

The inhabitants of the department are called Lot-et-Garonnais.

See also[link]

• Cantons of the Lot-et-Garonne department
• Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department
• Arrondissements of the Lot-et-Garonne department

External links[link]

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website
• (English) Lot-et-Garonne at the Open Directory Project
• (French) Chamber of Commerce and Industry website

Harlem Désir
Delegate First Secretary of the Socialist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 juin 2011 Take over temporarily the duties of Martine Aubry during her candidature for the Socialist Party primary
Personal details
Born	(1959-11-25) 25 November 1959 (age 52) Paris, France
Political party	Socialist Party
Alma mater	University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

Harlem Désir (born 25 November 1959 in Paris) is a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Île-de-France since 1999. He is a member of the Socialist Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.

Harlem Désir is member of the Capital Tax, Fiscal Systems and Globalisation Intergroup of the European Parliament, to whom was presented Denis Robert and Ernest Backes's book, Revelation$, in March 2001 [1].

He was the first president of the French anti-racist organisation SOS Racisme between 1984 and 1992.

On 30 June 2011, he was appointed Delegate First secretary of the Socialist Party (France) during the candidature of Martine Aubry for the Socialist Party primary, who started her campaign for presidential election of 2012 on 28 June 2011.

See also[link]

• Clearstream scandal