Toulouse: Minimes district
The Minimes you say in Occitan the Minims. Les Minimes, aquò’s a l’encòp / Les Minimes is both a district, mas tanben a bastard / but also a boulevard, a bridge / a bridge o encara una androna / or even a dead end. Als Minimes, take a metro stop at Linha B. The district owes its name to the installation of the religious order of the Minimes in the 16th century / al segle XVI.
Speaking of religion, note the presence of a church overlooking the Minimes district?
E o brave world, you really have a living historical heritage at Les Minimes. E efectivament, podètz anar véser la glèisa Sant Francés de Paula / you can admire the church of Saint François de Paule. It is an Occitan Gothic style church. It is located at 22 rue du Général Bourbaki.
Les Minimes is also a district that will be urbanized late?
Green / it’s true. Les Minimes became urbanized around the 19th and 20th centuries. Originally, aquò’s a barri d’ortalèrs / Originally a suburb of market gardeners, Avenue des Minimes later became a residential area with shops of all kinds and restaurants galore. E puèi end finala, finally when you think of the Minimes, de segur que fòrça mond pensan a un cantaire de Tolosa famós que famós / many people think of a very, very famous singer from Toulouse: it is of course Claude Nougaro. Les Minimes, the childhood district of the cantaire mondin / Les Minimes, Claude Nougaro’s childhood neighborhood. Aquest now / this morning, we salute all the inhabitants of the Toulouse district of Minimes who are listening to us on 91.8 / 91.8.