Toulouse is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 504,078 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2021); its metropolitan area has a population of 1.5 million inhabitants (2021). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France.
Picsou Magazine is a French magazine featuring characters from the Scrooge McDuck universe, as Balthazar Picsou is the French name of Scrooge McDuck. The magazine was started in March 1972. It was published on a monthly basis by Disney Hachette Presse, which has a license from the Walt Disney Company for producing and distributing Disney comics in France. In 2020, Unique Heritage Media bought Disney Hachette Presse.
Ligue 2, also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship by Balkrishna Industries, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the other being Ligue 1, the country's top football division. Contested by 18 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with both Ligue 1 and the third division Championnat National. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 34 games each, totalling 306 games in the season. Most games are played on Fridays and Mondays, with a few games played during weekday and weekend evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January.
Lavaur is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
Twin Jet is a French regional airline based in Aix en Provence.
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is a 1972 French spy comedy film directed by Yves Robert and written by Robert and Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard, Bernard Blier, Jean Rochefort and Mireille Darc. Richard reprised his role as François Perrin in the sequel, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1974), as well as playing a character with the same name in La Chèvre (1981).
Quéven is a commune in the Morbihan department of Brittany in north-western France.
The Toulouse tramway is a two-line tram system in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, France, and operates from Toulouse to the suburb of Beauzelle, passing through Blagnac. The Line T1 tramway serves 24 stations, and runs over of a route that is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) long. Including the three-station, 2.4-kilometre (1.5 mi) branch line of Line T2 which opened in April 2015, the entire Toulouse tramway serves 27 stations and is based on the Alstom Citadis 302 family of low-floor trains.
The 1997 ATP Tour was the elite tour for professional tennis organised by the ATP that year. The ATP Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the ATP Tour World Championships, the ATP Super 9, the Championship Series and the World Series tournaments.
École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse, is a veterinary school located in Toulouse, France. Established in 1825, it is also an institution of higher education and research and a teaching hospital.
Toupie is a French magazine for children 3 to 6 years of age. The magazine was established in 1985. It is part of Milan Presse, a division of Bayard Presse. The magazine is published on a monthly basis.
Toulouse Tech, also called the Toulouse Institute of Technology, is one of the grandes écoles network in France. Created in 2007, it gathers 16 French grandes écoles, covering engineering science, management, architecture and veterinary, aiming to be of comparable status to the most famous universities of technology around the world.
Deutsche Schule Toulouse is a German international school in Colomiers, France, near Toulouse, serving years 1–12. It has two campuses: the school administration, kindergarten, and primary school are located at the Eurocampus 2,
Located in the campus of Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France, École nationale supérieure de formation de l'enseignement agricole is a renowned Agricultural school, with roots back to 1963 as the École nationale de formation agronomique, re-organised in 2016 as École nationale supérieure de formation de l'enseignement agricole. It is one of the Toulouse Tech school. It is one of the national teacher training school in Agronomy in France. ENSFEA also offers bachelor's degree, Master's and PhDs.
Fenix Toulouse Handball is a French handball team based in Toulouse, that plays in the LNH Division 1.
The 2019–20 Ligue 1 season, also known as Ligue 1 Conforama for sponsorship reasons, was a French association football tournament within Ligue 1. It was the 82nd season since its establishment. The season began on 9 August 2019 and ended abruptly on 28 April 2020.
Jean-Yves Camus is a French political scientist who specializes in nationalist movements in Europe.
Louis Lareng was a French politician and professor of medicine specializing in anesthesia resuscitation.
Antranik Apelian was a French-Armenian rugby league footballer who played in 1950s and 1960s, as a hooker. At club level, he played for Marseille XIII for all of his career, with which he won the Lord Derby Cup in 1965 and ended second in the 1954 French Rugby League Championship final. He was surnamed "Niky". Outside the field, he worked as a firefighter in the Marseille Naval Fire Battalion. He also had a reputation of being "tough as nails".
Vià is a French television network. It started as a southern regional network in 2010, before going national in 2018, and subsequently contracting again due to economic problems.
Milan Presse in Toulouse
