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Logo by Ray Pierotti
2010-2011 Officers
Chairman Emerita:
Franklyn Skidmore
ATSCC welcomes all! We encourage active participation by all members: attendance at meetings, participation in events, serving on a subcommittee, or even becoming an officer. A small membership fee of $25 ($35 per couple) is charged annually to cover mailings and other expenses. To join, please print out the application page and send it along with your check to the address given. Our year runs April through March. And knowledge of the French language is not a requirement for membership! Contact: Carol Evans, cevansatl@comcast.net
FROM THE FRENCH CONSULATE
The
Consulate General of France
in
Finally, I invite you to
discover our newly posted video on our Youtube channel,
ConsulaTV.
In order to reinforce the dialogue between the French consulate and the
French and American communities of the South-eastern region, I answered
questions asked by Internet users on our Facebook page.
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Our Mission
To promote friendship and
build personal and business relationships between the citizens of
Toulouse, France, and Atlanta. Our Story
ATSCC
operates under the umbrella of Sister Cities International. Atlanta
began its official sister city relationship with Toulouse on December 17,
1974, when then Mayor Maynard Jackson signed a proclamation declaring
Toulouse one of Atlanta's official sister cities.
Toulouse
Toulouse is the fourth most populous city in France, with a metropolitan
area of about 750,000 diverse inhabitants. Over 400,000 live inside
the city. Nicknamed
la ville rose
(the pink city), because of the
predominant use of a rose-colored brick in its architecture, she is the
capital of the Midi-Pyrenees, and the space and technology center of
Europe. Aerospatiale employs 9,000 workers, and Alcatel, the world's
largest builder of satellites, operates here. Toulouse is also home
to Airbus Industrie, one of the world's two largest manufacturers of
commercial airliners. The city is situated on the Garonne River, 450
miles south of Paris, and 90 miles north of the Franco-Spanish border and
the Pyrenees. Travel
Travel
to Toulouse is an almost annual event,
with homestays and excursions to surrounding areas as highlights of
the trips. Many exciting trips have taken place since the initial
one in 1985. There are still some beautiful pictures posted below
right from one of our trips to the Pyrenees after the Phoenix presentation
ceremony.
Honfleur PHOTO ARCHIVES OF PAST ACTIVITIES
2009 September November 2009 Wine-tasting Party
2008
Spring Gathering
Bastille Day 2008 Visit to Persimmon Winery October 2008
Officer Installation at Home of
Consul-General Philippe Ardanaz--April 2007
CLICK HERE
to view Pictures of 2007 Trip to Provence and Toulouse
Click here for 2005 pictures of the
Phoenix presentation ceremony as
well as the highlights of the Basque Country trip for the second week.
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The Phoenix and Toulouse l'Envol du Phoenix
Five years
ago the Atlanta Toulouse Sister City Committee set out on a mission to
present our sister city a lasting heritage of sentiment, a gift
symbolizing our complex feelings of compassion, empathy, renewal,
friendship and rejuvenation in the wake of the AZF explosion on September
21, 2001.
The unveiling
of Atlanta’s Legacy sculpture took place on Friday, May 20, 2005,
during a formal ceremony at the Jardins Cafarelli in the heart of the city
of Toulouse.
Programs In August the venue was the Cashins’ Chukkar Farm Polo match, while September brought a backstage tour of the High Museum and viewing of some of their new impressionist paintings. October featured a bus trip to the Persimmon Creek winery in North Georgia with a wine-tasting and gourmet lunch. In November we attended a cooking class and learned how to cook Provençal food. December featured a dinner with the Cercle des Gourmands as well as the usual Christmas Eve Party at Frank Buda’s home. The new year of 2009 was ushered in with the Fête des Rois Epiphany party, as well as visits to both the King Tut exhibit and the Terracotta Army. February included another Cercle des Gourmands dinner at the Petite Auberge, and March was a wine-tasting month. You can see the programs that are being planned for the upcoming months if you click on the link below.
The Pont Neuf, which spans
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Web Sites for More Information on Toulouse and Southwestern France The Toulouse-Atlanta Sister City web site: http://toulouseatlanta.fr/
http://www.mairie-toulouse.fr/ANGLAIS/Accueil_En.htm Welcome
to Toulouse!
The city's website is very complete with all kinds of information on
history and cultural attractions as well
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Links to Local Sites http://www.afatl.com Website for the Alliance Française with its calendar of all local items of interest to Francophiles. http://www.consulfrance-atlanta.org Website of the French Consulate office in Atlanta.
http://www.france-atlanta.org
New website of the Georgia Tech-France connection mentioned on the first
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He had lived in Toulouse as a child, while his mother was pursuing her
doctorate in French. He felt the two cities would make excellent
sister city partners.
And they have!
