Toulouse: what will the new streets be called?
During the last city council, Toulouse elected officials, as they regularly do, approved the names of new streets, often future arteries of the city.
Each year, over the course of municipal councils, Toulouse elected officials christen fifty to eighty streets, squares or roundabouts, often the future arteries of a city that continues to grow. This is the case for the three new streets that will be laid out near the Cartoucherie and the Zénith, in the Polygone sector. During the last batch of baptismal names, during the municipal council on July 1, the elected officials chose to honor the memory of Jean-Pierre Vernant, the historian and professor at the Collège de France, also a companion of the Liberation, ” Colonel Berthier” during the Resistance in Haute-Garonne, that of the Toulouse hospital doctor who died last year, Professor Jacquel Arlet, and the French mathematician Paulette Libermann. These three names alone illustrate the main principles followed by elected officials for their choices: the local dimension and feminization. In addition to these objectives, there are also tributes to the victims of the attacks and to personalities, as was the case, in front of the Zenith, in 2019, with the Johnny Halliday esplanade.
On July 1, the elected officials of the municipal council also decided to name rue Colette Besson, named after the Olympic champion, a route on the island of Ramier, between the Bienes and Professor Soula alleys, which had remained unnamed. A boulevard Hélène Vianney will see the light of day on a plot under construction near the Candie circuit and the town of Portet. Resistant, Hélène Vianney was also the founder of the Glénans sailing school, in southern Finistère. Finally, the Algerian singer of Kabyle expression Idir will give his name to a space located near Victor-Hugo, at the corner of boulevard de Strasbourg and rue du Rempart – Matabiau.
In April, ten streets had been designated, including the Allée Anne-Laure Arruebo, in Sept-Deniers, a young resident of Quint-Fonsegrives killed in the Bataclan attack on November 13, 2015 in Paris, and rue Bartolomé Bennassar , the Toulouse-based historian and writer specializing in Spain.