If Toulouse is the second city of Aveyron, what is the first?
Aveyron and the Aveyronnais of Toulouse were the subject of a happy post this Friday, October 7 on France Bleu. In detail.
“Toulouse would therefore be the second city of Aveyron? : thus begins the chronicle devoted to Aveyron this Friday, October 7 in the morning on France Blue Occitania. A tantalizing and jovial little portrait with farçous and tripous, the little word of the best sommelier in the world Sergio Calderonwho officiates at the restaurant of Sébastien Bras on the Aubrac, the Millau gloves, the Laguiole knife also effective against the fog or the Aveyronnaise Laure Pelou, who has just opened her restaurant Le Gram’s, rue de la Colombette in Toulouse.
About 60,000 inhabitants of the Toulouse conurbation would be Aveyronnais, therefore the second city in number behind Rodez, according to the masked chronicler of France Bleu.
Why the second? Because seen from the Pink City it seems, Rodez is a larger city than it seems, the chronicle lending to Piton (and its agglomeration) a population of 84,000 inhabitants, while Rodez does not accuse intra muros only 24,475 inhabitants, and the agglomeration 47,868 inhabitants. This figure of 84,000 people is in fact the population of the urban area of Rodez, which includes a large part of the Aveyron territory and nearly fifty towns and villages, from Quins to Marcillac and from Villecomtal to Salmiech. A bit broad as a spectrum, no?
If we keep the population of the Ruthenian agglomeration, does Toulouse become the first city of Aveyron? Well no: we must not forget Paris, where about 300,000 Aveyronnais live, more inhabitants of the “12”… than in the “12” itself. In terms of population, Toulouse is therefore the second largest city in Aveyron, behind Paris, and ahead of Rodez. Unless in Montpellier, Lyon, Lille or Bordeaux, the number of followers of aligot, skittles of eight and Roquefort are also more numerous there than in Rodez…