Talk, talk?
Yesterday I started to tell you about my adventures in Toulouse and started off my "Toulouse photo album". I included this photograph taken on the rear corner of the Capitole building, home of the Mairie de Toulouse, as I was walking down from the metro exit. At the time of writing I was puzzled by the apparent duplication which also happens with the street signs affixed to buildings. Some more information came to my attention afterwards which I thought of great interest and I added a second copy of the photograph to the album which explains the reason. Until the holy war to exterminate the Cathars, a novel called "Labyrinth" by Kate Moss gives an excellent introduction into this part of French history as she weaves fact and fiction into a very readable tale, France was basically two countries, the king in the north and the various counts in the south. As I will show later in this adventure there were two economic regions too with taxes and duties, at different rat...