Toulouse of Yesterday and Today

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Be a poet, stroll around while looking up at the sky : you'll discover Toulouse there. This clear-minded vision, which gíves the architect his emblems of light and shade, which make the treasures of Time come surging out of the night, these eyes which accompany you and invite you to the many beautiful views in this book are those of Jean Dieuzaide. The colours of eternity, magicai plays of light emerge and are caught by his loving patience. The centuries past, the centuríes of our history, deserved this modest and exacting prayer of the photographer and his long wait for the perfect moment. This book then, is a book on time ; it weaves a golden thread, as beautifully as possible, between the past and the future. Fernand Cousteaux, editor of La Dépéche du Midi, relates to us the mysteries and adventures of the city, a rebel for its love of humanity and proud temperament, which still bears, in the red and black of its sporting banners, the colours of the Capitouls. Who then, save... Tovább

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Be a poet, stroll around while looking up at the sky : you'll discover Toulouse there. This clear-minded vision, which gíves the architect his emblems of light and shade, which make the treasures of Time come surging out of the night, these eyes which accompany you and invite you to the many beautiful views in this book are those of Jean Dieuzaide. The colours of eternity, magicai plays of light emerge and are caught by his loving patience. The centuries past, the centuríes of our history, deserved this modest and exacting prayer of the photographer and his long wait for the perfect moment. This book then, is a book on time ; it weaves a golden thread, as beautifully as possible, between the past and the future. Fernand Cousteaux, editor of La Dépéche du Midi, relates to us the mysteries and adventures of the city, a rebel for its love of humanity and proud temperament, which still bears, in the red and black of its sporting banners, the colours of the Capitouls. Who then, save thisman of memory, a lover of heritagé, this man of the pen, accustomed to gauging the trends of the city and its links with the wide world from the hubub of its day-to-day life, could better serve the ambitious aim of this grand book ? There is no greater hommage to the brilliant past of this town than that of highlighting it as the conqueror, at the forefront of modern industry, by introducing us to its most highly eÉBcient companies. Michel Valdiguié, depűty mayor of Toulouse, assigned to the establishment of índustries and tourism, legal expert, e.n.a,, set on prospectives and technology and an outdoor man, opens the doors of the year 2000 for us. The control of the infinitely small, of micro-informatics, chips, already combines here with the infinitely large, with space, announcing a transformation of our vision of the world and a redefínition of our skyborne ambitions. Toulouse is the new melting pot of two infínite quantities, and may be the rediscovery of the ancient questions, in an age of orbiting space stations. Vissza