Parks and Gardens in Toulouse, Episode 76
Join Us in France Travel Podcast
Annie Sargent
4.6 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2015
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On today’s show Elyse tells us how long ago Toulouse was an overcrowded medieval city with dirt roads, no running water, no sanitation, and no public parks. Then a local visionary named Louis de Mondran fought the good fight to bring public parks to the city starting in the 1740s, and we still enjoy three wonderful adjacent parks at the center of Toulouse: the Boulingrin (or Grand Rond), the Jardin des Plantes, and the Jardin Royal.
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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. This is |
| 0:28.0 | this is join us in France episode 76. Hello I'm Annie and I'm Elise. |
| 0:31.0 | And she's here today. Yay! How nice to see you |
| 0:36.8 | Elise. Nice to see you Annie. And today we have a wonderful show for you that's |
| 0:41.6 | very appropriate for this summer weather. |
| 0:45.0 | So I'll let you introduce the subject at least, but first you have to tell us what you've been |
| 0:48.7 | up to, you know, have you seen any good French movies? Have I seen it? No. |
| 0:53.3 | No. |
| 0:54.3 | I go to the movies and watch American movies. |
| 0:57.1 | Isn't that all? |
| 0:58.0 | No. What did I just see? |
| 1:01.3 | I saw a French movie that was ridiculous. |
| 1:03.0 | Hang on. It's right behind me. Let me go grab it. |
| 1:05.0 | Tell us about the one you saw and I'll come right back. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, actually I saw a very charming movie that takes place in Paris, but the movie is American, and that was called My Old Lady, and it is a movie with |
| 1:17.5 | Maggie Smith and Kevin Klein and Kristen Scott Thomas, and the whole thing is filmed in the Mache. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh, well that has something to do with France. |
| 1:28.0 | Exactly. |
| 1:29.0 | And that's probably one of the reasons I wanted to go see it aside from the fact that I wanted to see something |
| 1:33.6 | that was just going to be kind of like a nice summer fairy tale type movie. |
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