Jolimont that you say in Occitan Belmont. Estacion venenta Bèlmont, this is what passengers on line A of the Tisséo metro hear. Belmont, it is a toponym that you can compare to the name Beaumont (like Beaumont sur Lèze in Haute-Garonne or Beaumont de Lomagne in Tarn-et-Garonne). Jolimont is a very recent name when analyzing the Toulouse toponymy / when espepissam the toponimia mondina. Jolimont does not appear until the end of the 19th century / at the end of Rule XIX.
Jolimont, is it initially the name of a street?
E òc brave mond! / and yes ! Çò primièr, Bèlmont es lo nom d’una carrièra e tanben d’una androna / originally, Jolimont, it is first and foremost the name of a street and a dead end (then later, also, amb los immòbles bastits / with the HLM city of Jolimont built from 1948 to 1956). Beforehand, imagine that we are not talking about Jolimont. Se parlava alavetz de la Colona. La colona, it is the Column in reference to the obelisk which is located in front of the garden of the Observatory. This obelisk commemorates a Napoleonic war in 1815.
Another name to talk about Jolimont with Calvinet:
Calvinet, it’s Occitan. Alavetz, what do Calvinet mean? Calvinet, literally, it means “the little bald mountain”. Benlèu / perhaps to denote the lack of vegetation in the past. Finally, a word about the Saint Sylve church, located rue Reille between the Column and Marengo, una glèisa pro particulara / a rather special church. It is a religious building constructed by alternating rows of stones and bricks / of teulas. The Saint Sylve church dates from the end of the 19th century. This morning on France Bleu Occitanie, we greet all the inhabitants of the Jolimont district who are listening to us in Toulouse on 91.8.