Coordinates: 43°25′07″N 0°14′36″W / 43.4186°N 0.2433°W / 43.4186; -0.2433

Escoubès is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Arnaud Montebourg (born October 30, 1962, in Clamecy, Nièvre) is a French politician, and a deputy of the fifth district of Saône-et-Loire to the French National Assembly for the Socialist Party. He has also been elected president of the local assembly of Saône et Loire after local elections in 2008. Montebourg was also candidate to the socialist presidential primary of 2011.

He has been named France's Minister of Industrial Renewal in the New French government appointed under Prime Minister of France Jean-Marc Ayrault in May 16, 2012.

He is the son of Michel Montebourg, a civil servant employed in the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and Leïla Ould Cadi, a professor of Algerian descent, who was born to a family of Wālis from Hachem, northern Algeria.

Arnaud Montebourg became an attorney following university. Together with the notable attorney Thierry Levy, he defended Christian Didier, charged in the 1994 slaying of René Bousquet. The former Vichy official had been indicted for war crimes and was soon to be tried. Didier was convicted in 1995 and received a 10-year sentence.