Editing Montpellier (section)

==Other locations named after Montpellier==
The name Montpellier is used for towns and streets in as many as four continents.<ref name=all>{{cite web| url=http://www.allthemontpelliers.org | title=All the Montpelliers | year=2005}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=August 2009}} Many places in the United Kingdom and Ireland carry the name Montpellier. Often they are in resort locations claiming some of the healthy attributes for which the French city was renowned in earlier centuries. The variant spelling "Montpelier" is common, and is of quite early provenance. [[Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable|Brewer]] uses that spelling. The first example was the early 19th-century suburb of [[Montpelier, Brighton|Montpelier]] in [[Brighton]].<ref name="MC1">{{cite web|title=Montpelier & Clifton Hill Conservation Area Character Statement|url=http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/downloads/conservation/Character_Area_Montpelier_Clifton__Final.pdf|publisher=Brighton & Hove City Council (Design & Conservation Department)|date=20 October 2005|page=1|access-date=31 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082203/http://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/sites/brighton-hove.gov.uk/files/downloads/conservation/Character_Area_Montpelier_Clifton__Final.pdf|archive-date=19 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>

The capital of the American state of [[Vermont]] was named [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] because of the high regard in which the Americans held the French<ref>{{cite book |author=Swift, Esther Munroe |title=Vermont Place Names: Footprints of History |year=1977 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |pages=451–454 |isbn=0-8289-0291-7}}</ref> who had aided their [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] against the [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]]. Several other American cities are also named Montpelier.

Places named Montpellier/Montpelier are also found in Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Caribbean.

James Madison, the United States fourth president, named his plantation [[Montpelier (Orange, Virginia)]], after the resort-like properties associated with the city at the time.