Augustins and Abattoirs in Toulouse, Ep. 69

Join Us in France Travel Podcast

Annie Sargent

History, Art, Lifestyle, Travel, Paris, Places & Travel, Culture, Tour, Language, Monuments, Society & Culture, Visit, France

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2015

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today Elyse tells us about two wonderful museums in Toulouse, the Augustin and the Abattoir Museums in Toulouse. These are two buildings that were re-purposed to be museums but they started out as a convent and a slaughter-house respectively. The Augustins was declared an art museum in 1793, which makes it the first museum open to the public anywhere in France, yes, even before the Louvre! How about that for a provincial city in the south-west of France? And, as a side benefit, it is also one the rare places in France where you can pet a gargoyle. We know you've always wanted to do that! The Abattoirs has a gruesome past, but it has been transformed into a peaceful place with a lovely garden near the Garonne River.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, this is Elise.
0:02.0	Since recording this episode, I have created a self-guided walking tour of Toulouse.
0:08.0	To find out more, contact me at Elise at join us in France.com and I'll see you in Toulouse. The the This is a
0:53.0	jones in France episode 69
0:57.0	hello I'm Annie and I'm Elise
0:59.0	Hey she's back I'm back
1:01.0	It's fun.
1:03.0	At least is a professional tour guide, art historian and a really good storyteller.
1:07.4	Yes, yes, yes, yes.
1:08.3	And she has stories for us today.
1:10.1	About?
1:11.1	About two things that are beginning with the letter A. We'll start from the beginning.
1:18.0	Okay. We're going to talk about two places in the wonderful city of Toulouse where we both live and they are two museums
1:25.2	one is called the Augusteung and the other is called the Abattoir and we're going to
1:30.3	talk about what they were and what they are.
1:33.0	Very good, very good. But before we get started, I got to say thank you to Anna Tinsman for your
1:38.1	donation. Thank you very much. And also I had some problems this week with the
1:42.6	the RSS feed for the show.
1:44.0	Now, I don't want to bore you with all of this.
1:46.4	But it took quite a bit of trouble shooting.
1:48.0	And I think I'm not quite out of the woods yet.
1:50.4	I'm going to have to make some changes to how I set this up. So I would really
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