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64 unusual facts about Toulouse


1996 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse

The 1996 Grand Prix de Tennis de Toulouse was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts at the Palais des Sports de Toulouse in Toulouse in France and was part of the World Series of the 1996 ATP Tour.

2008 Masters France

It was the first edition of the event held in Toulouse, France from December 18 through December 21, 2008.

2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women

The 2009 FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship for Women is the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the Under–17 World Championship for Women 2010 at Rodez and Toulouse, France.

Abbey of Saint-Gilles

In its center is the tomb of St. Giles, a medieval place of veneration until in the 16th century, his relics were moved to the Basilica of Saint Sernin at Toulouse.

Aero Spacelines Super Guppy

In the early 1970s, the two Super Guppies were used by Airbus to transport aeroplane parts from decentralised production facilities to the final assembly plant in Toulouse.

The other four are mothballed: the SG at Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, United States; the first SGT, which has recently begun a restoration program, at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, United Kingdom; the second outside Airbus' factories at Toulouse Blagnac International Airport, Toulouse, France; and the third at Finkenwerder, Germany.

Airbus A330 MRTT

Standard commercial A330-200s are delivered from Airbus Final Assembly Line in Toulouse (France) to Airbus Military Conversion Centre in Getafe, Spain for fitting of refuelling systems and military avionics.

Airbus Operations S.A.S.

Airbus Operations SAS, one of the four wholly owned subsidiaries of AIRBUS SAS (an EADS company) is a limited liability company (société par actions simplifiée) duly organised and existing under the laws of France, having its registered office at 316 route de Bayonne, 31060 Toulouse, France and represented by its General Manager Mr Patrick PIEDRAFITA.

Alamanda de Castelnau

She was probably poetically active only briefly while spending her youth at the court of Raymond V of Toulouse.

Alexander Abusch

In 1937, he became part of the exiled KPD leadership in Paris, later in Toulouse.

Alfred Moquin-Tandon

Moquin-Tandon was professor of zoology at Marseille from 1829 until 1833, when he was appointed professor of botany and director of the botanical gardens at Toulouse.

Alphabus

The first service module of the new Alphabus completed its first journey at the end of January 2010 – from Cannes to Toulouse, in France.

András Rosztóczy

Meanwhile he was awarded a scholarship to Division of Gastroenterology, the Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine in Baltimore, the United States in 1991 and to Unite Neurogatroenterologie et Nutrition, INRA, Toulouse, France in 2000.

André Maranne

Born in Toulouse, France, Maranne's most prominent recurring role was Sergeant François Chevalier in six of The Pink Panther films, alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom.

Avitus

In the late spring of 455, Avitus was recalled to service by emperor Petronius Maximus and was elevated to the rank of magister militum, probably praesentalis; Maximus sent Avitus in an embassy to the court of Theodoric II, who had succeeded to his father, at Toulouse.

Bertrand of Comminges

Through his mother's side of the family, Bertrand was related to the Counts of Toulouse, William IV and Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles, who were his cousins.

Charles Chaynes

Charles Chaynes (born 11 July 1925 in Toulouse) is a French composer.

Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles

Sarrabezolles was born in Toulouse, studied at that city's École des Beaux-Arts (1904–1907), then from 1907-1914 at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, where he settled for good.

Christophe Rezai

He was born to an Iranian Father and a French mother in 1966 in the city of Toulouse in France.

Congregation of Our Lady of Calvary

Antoinette was left a widow in 1596, and entered the convent of the Feuillantines at Toulouse in 1599.

Dee Estuary

The estuary also plays a part in the most modern of industries as it provides the first stage of transport of Airbus A380 wings on their way to Toulouse via barge to Mostyn docks.

Dewoitine D.332

The three D.333s were used on the Toulouse-Dakar sector of the Air France South American route for several years.Two of these planes were transferred to the Argentine Air Force after WWII and usde along with two 338s.

Dewoitine D.35

The D.35 was built solely as a company taxi to carry Dewoitine personnel between Paris and Toulouse.

ENSAE ParisTech

Note that the abbreviation ENSAE also refers to SUPAERO, a grande école for aerospace engineering in Toulouse, France.

Exuperius

Upon succeeding Saint Sylvius as bishop of Toulouse, he completed the Basilica of St. Sernin, begun by his predecessor.

Golfech Nuclear Power Plant

The Golfech Nuclear Power Plant is located in the commune of Golfech (Tarn-et-Garonne), on the border of Garonne between Agen (30 km downstream) and Toulouse (90 km upstream) on the Garonne River, from where it gets cooling water, and approximately 40 km west of Montauban.

Guilhabert de Castres

Born in Castres, he became a Perfect (Parfaits) and, between 1223 and 1226, Bishop of Toulouse in the Cathar Church.

Iain S. Duff

He is also the Project Leader for the Parallel Algorithms Group at CERFACS in Toulouse.

Institut national des sciences appliquées

There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

Jacques Gamelin

Gamelin's father rejected Puymaurin's suggestion that Jacques be sent to an art academy, so the baron paid his way at the Académie royale de Toulouse himself.

After receiving an education from the Jesuits, he went into the service of Nicolas Joseph de Marcassus, baron de Puymaurin (1718–1791), a wealthy industrialist of Toulouse, in order to learn the ways of business.

Jean Schneitzhoeffer

Jean Madeleine Marie Schneitzhöeffer (13 October 1785, Toulouse – 14 October 1852, Paris) was a French composer.

Jimmy Cable

In May Cable travelled to Toulouse in France to challenge for the EBU light middleweight title against Said "Freddy" Skouma.

John Criswick

In 1991 he spent the summer in Toulouse, France at the International Space University, immersed in a multidisciplinary program of study centered on space technology.

José Luis Soberanes

He is a full-time researcher at the National Autonomous University, a distinguished professor of the National University of San Marcos (Peru), an academician at the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence (Spain) and a visitant professor of the Social Sciences University of Toulouse, France.

Latécoère 17

However, eight were used for services to South America, and two on a temporary domestic route between Perpignan, Marseille, and Toulouse.

Latécoère 4

The aircraft was still unstable and unready to try the intended Toulouse-Casablanca route.

Latécoère 570

Construction began at Latécoère's Toulouse works from about April 1937, but during that year the Toulouse-Montaudran region was seriously disrupted by industrial action and it was decided to complete the aircraft at the Bayonne factory.

Les Sacqueboutiers

Les Sacqueboutiers, formerly Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse, are French early music wind and brass ensemble founded in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu at Toulouse.

LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse

This third option, currently favoured, would permit a common first section between the LGV Bordeaux–Toulouse and the extension of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique from Bordeaux to the Spanish border.

The delegates from Aquitaine wished priority to be given to the extension of the LGV Sud Europe Atlantique to the Spanish border.

some opposition from the southern Gironde area and particularly the Captieux region, where residents feared the destruction of natural sites and felt that the upgrading of the existing line would make more sense.

Mick Quinn

On 21 August 2007, Quinn was hospitalized in Toulouse, France for an operation to repair two broken vertebrae and a smashed Calcaneus, sustained after falling out of a first floor window of a rented villa he was staying in with his family.

Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa

Named after Saint Louis of Anjou, the bishop of Toulouse, the mission is the namesake of the city of San Luis Obispo and San Luis Obispo County.

Ozar Hatorah

Subsequently, schools were set up in Antony, Toulouse, Marseille, and other cities, bringing the total number of Ozar Hatorah schools in France to 20, some maintained with local funds.

On 19 March 2012, four people were killed, including a teaching rabbi and three children, when a gunman riding on a scooter opened fire on the Ozar Hatorah school in Toulouse.

Pandemonic Incantations

A remastered digipak version was released by Metal Mind Records with 6 bonus tracks, including 5 live tracks recorded during the European tour in Toulouse, France on February 27, 1999 and a studio version of With Spell of Inferno (Mefisto).

Pons Santolh

Pons (de) Santolh was a thirteenth-century troubadour, probably a member of the Centulli family, but whether of the Castelsarrasin or Toulouse branch remains a mystery.

Pope Innocent III

It was directed not only against heretical Christians, but also the nobility of Toulouse and vassals of the Crown of Aragon.

At the beginning of his pontificate, he focused on the Albigenses, also known as the Cathars, a sect that had become widespread in southernwestern France, then under the control of local princes, such as the Counts of Toulouse.

Prix Fille de l'Air

It is run at Toulouse over a distance of 2,100 metres (about 1 mile and 2½ furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in November.

Quota players

Championship teams are only allowed one quota player, aside from Toulouse who have five foreign players.

Renix

Renix Electronique S.A., was established in 1981 as a joint venture by Renault with 51% interest and Bendix with 49% that was headquartered in Toulouse.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne

The Very Reverend Dr. Thady O'Brien, Regius Professor of Theology of the University of Toulouse and Rector of the Irish College Toulouse, born 12 March 1671 at Robertstown, Gortroe, in the diocese of Cloyne; oradined at Toulouse on 2 June 1703; Rector of the Irish College Tolouse 1706-1715; Parish Priest of Castlelyons 1715-1747; died 10 October 1747 at Castlelyons where he was interred.

Sa druge strane jastuka

"Bata thought that a French accordion would sound great there. Our friend Mita, a folker, knew to play some French stuff on the accordion. Žika was singing on a partly fictional French ... Then I wrote new lyrics, and Bata and Žika agreed it should be followed by march. And it sounds great, a great act on the concerts. We played on some festival in Toulouse in 1985, and they thought it was interesting."

Saint Martial

All that is known about him may be summed up thus: Under the Emperors Decius and Gratius (AD 250-251), Pope Fabian sent out seven bishops from Rome to Gaul to preach the Gospel: Gatien to Tours, Trophimus to Arles, Paul to Narbonne, Saturnin to Toulouse, Denis to Paris, Austromoine to Clermont, and Martial to Limoges.

Sara Fulgoni

Her signature role is perhaps Carmen the Daily Telegraph referring to her as "the Carmen of the Decade" a role which she has sung for the English National Opera, Welsh National Opera, Geneva Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Toulouse Capitole, and at the Beijing Music Festival.

Septem Provinciae

The Visigoths were brought in as foederati to aid the Romans against them, and in 418 emperor Honorius allowed them to settle in Aquitania around Toulouse.

Sophie Raworth

After completing a degree in French and German at the University of Manchester, Raworth spent a year teaching English to teenagers in Toulouse before studying for a postgraduate course in broadcasting and journalism at City University London.

Stock

Around 1250 in France at Toulouse, 96 shares of the Société des Moulins du Bazacle, or Bazacle Milling Company were traded at a value that depended on the profitability of the mills the society owned.

Tandridge District

The district is not currently twinned however one of its towns, Lingfield is twinned with Plaisance du Touch, Toulouse, France.

The Mysteries of Udolpho

In the following months Montoni threatens his wife with violence to force her to sign over her properties in Toulouse, which upon her death would otherwise go to Emily.

Toulouse Mass

The Toulouse Mass is a polyphonic 14th-century musical setting of the Mass found in a manuscript in the municipal library of Toulouse.

Uruguayan people

The famed tango singer Carlos Gardel was born in Toulouse, France, then raised in Buenos Aires, but as an adult he obtained legal papers saying he was born in Tacuarembó, probably to avoid French military authorities.


André Turp

He taught at the Montreal Music Conservatory from 1979 until 1989, and served on juries for international competitions in Toulouse and Verviers.

Arnaut de Mareuil

He is said to have been a "clerk" from a poor family who eventually became a jongleur; he settled at the courts of Toulouse and then Béziers.

Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse

The stone that killed Simon de Montfort in 1218, while he was besieging Toulouse, was thrown from the roof of Saint-Sernin.

Bernard André

A native of Toulouse, André was tutor to Prince Arthur of England, and probably had a share in the education of the future King Henry VIII.

Bram van der Stok

After arriving safely there he was equipped with the paperwork of a Belgian persona, and then traveled by train via Brussels and Paris to Toulouse, where the French Resistance put him with two American lieutenants, two other RAF pilots, a French officer and a Russian, and took the group across the Pyrenees to Lleida in Spain.

Château Malromé

In 1883, the Countess Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec acquired the building, attracted by its proximity to Verdelais, a nearby shrine and place of pilgrimage.

Claude Brossette

Brossette was a man of far-reaching connections, exchanging letters with Academy President Bouhier, Abbot Olivet and Father Vanière from Toulouse.

Code of Euric

The Codex Euricianus or Code of Euric was a collection of laws governing the Visigoths compiled at the order of Euric, King of Spain, sometime before 480, probably at Toulouse (possible at Arles); it is one of the earliest examples of early Germanic law.

European Network for Training Economic Research

From March 1, 2011 Richard Blundell (UCL, London), Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse I) agreed to form the new scientific committee at ENTER.

Eusebio Guiñazú

At the end of 2010, he returned to France when he joined Biarritz and shortly after moved to Toulouse.

Felix De Smedt

After World War II had broken out in Belgium on May 10, 1940, he accompanied his father to work in Moissac near Toulouse in Southern France, which at that time was still unoccupied.

Hélène Fleury-Roy

Her students at the conservatory who became noted include conductor Louis Auriacombe, future founder of the Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, composer Charles Chaynes, and violinist Pierre Dukan.

Henri Ziegler

"There would be no Airbus without Henri Ziegler," Airbus CEO Gustav Humbert declared on 11 April 2006 at the dedication of the new Airbus delivery centre in Toulouse named in his honour.

Hôpital de La Grave

During the periods in which the plagues ravaged Toulouse, the Hôpital de La Grave was used care for those afflicted with the disease, isolating them from the beggers, injured and disabled.

Jason Baitieri

The son of former player and coach Tas Baitieri, Jason was born in Paris, but played junior rugby league in Toulouse before returning to Castle Hill, New South Wales when he was 8 to play for the Hills District Bulls, a team in the Parramatta District Junior Rugby League competition, based in Baulkham Hills.

John Francis Charles, 7th Count de Salis-Soglio

Prince Eugene was grandson of François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet, Count de Caraman, 16th Prince de Chimay, (born Paris 21.9.1771, died Toulouse 2.3.1843), by Juana Maria Ignazia Teresa Cabarrús, Madame Tallien, (born Carabanchel Alto, Spain 31.7.1773, died Chimay 15.1.1835), whom he married in Paris 22.8.1805.

Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems

This facility is located near to other important higher education facilities in Toulouse, France: the Paul Sabatier University, SUPAERO, the ENAC, the INSA, as well as other research centers (the ONERA and the CNES).

Langon, Gironde

Langon is also a pivotal point in the Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit, the waterway and road route constructed to allow the transportation of the fuselage sections and wings of the Airbus A380 airliner to the final assembly point in Toulouse.

Lorenç Mallol

Lorenç presented a certain vers figurat (figured verse), Sobre·l pus alt de tots los cims d'un arbre, to the Consistori del Gay Saber in Toulouse, a mystic allegory of Jesus Christ (Ihus lo salvaire), who is the auzel(l)et tot blanch (little all-white bird), and the Jews, who are a corps mot vils (most vile corpse).

Luke McAlister

It was also reported that he had turned down offers from both Munster and Toulouse to join Sale.

Maxime Dethomas

Dethomas's early style owes most to the influence of Carrière and Degas, whilst later works tend more towards that of Toulouse-Lautrec, Legrand and Forain.

Musée des Augustins

The Musée des Augustins de Toulouse was one of fifteen museums founded in provincial centres, by a decree of 13 Fructidor year IX (31 August 1801), which was promulgated by the minister of the interior, Jean-Antoine Chaptal.

Pierre Jélyotte

Born Pierre Grichon in Lasseube, he studied in Toulouse (voice, harpsichord, guitar, violin, composition) and made his stage debut in Paris as a singer at the Concert Spirituel in 1733.

Pierre Rigal

He studied mathematics and economics at the University of Barcelona and graduated with a masters degree in cinema from École Supérieure d'Audiovisuel de Toulouse in 1997, but became interested in dance after meeting choreographers and directors.

Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française

Marseille followed on 20 September 1954, Lyon on 8 November 1954, Toulouse in August 1961, Bordeaux on 25 January 1962, and most other regional centres opened shortly thereafter.

Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse

He received Saint-Gilles with the title of "count" from his father and displaced his niece Philippa, Duchess of Aquitaine, his brother William IV's daughter, in 1094 from inheriting Toulouse.

Salvador Espriu

He was awarded honorary doctor's degrees by the universities of Toulouse and Barcelona.

Salvian

The De gubernatione, Salvian's greatest work, was published after the capture of Litorius at Toulouse (439), to which he plainly alludes in vii.

Siege of Port Toulouse

The Siege of Port Toulouse took place between May 2–10, 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Port Toulouse (present-day St. Peter's, Nova Scotia) in the French colony of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) from its French defenders during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.

Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet

He was born in Cargins, Co Galway, Ireland and educated at the Jesuit College, Toulouse, France (abtaining an MD in 1758) and the School of Medicine in Montpellier, France.

SNCF Class X 72500

They operate longer distance TER services, particularly in the areas south and west of Paris, the Paris to Laon line, around Tours, Nantes, Toulouse, Lyon, Dijon, Nevers, Grenoble, Bordeaux and the South Coast of France.

Stade Ernest-Argelès

The Ernest-Argelès stadium is a ground of French Rugby League stadium of 4000 seats located in Blagnac (in the close vicinity of Toulouse).

Toulouse 1 University Capitole

Toulouse 1 University Capitole was the second university created in France in 1229 after the Sorbonne was founded (around the year 1200).

UA Gaillac

The club, founded in 1901, is based in the small town of Gaillac, in southwestern France, in the département of Tarn, some 70 km northeast of Toulouse.

William of Septimania

Pepin invested him with Toulouse, while Charles installed Fredelo there.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.