Aéropostale was a pioneering aviation company which operated from 1918 to 1933. It was founded in 1918 in Toulouse, France, as Société des lignes Latécoère, also known as Lignes aeriennes Latécoère or simply "The Line".
Lignes aeriennes Latécoère c.1918.
Security paper of the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale, issued 5. November 1928
Aéropostale monument in Tarfaya.
Toulouse is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, 150 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, 230 km (143 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean and 680 km (420 mi) from Paris. It is the fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 504,078 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2021); its metropolitan area has a population of 1.5 million inhabitants (2021). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 22 metropolitan councils of France. Between the 2014 and 2020 censuses, its metropolitan area was the third fastest growing among metropolitan areas larger than 500,000 inhabitants in France.
Image: Toulouse vue du Vieux Toulouse depuis St Sernin 06
Image: Ariane 5 at Cite de l'Espace 5
Image: Toulouse St Sernin Est
Image: Toulouse Capitole Night Wikimedia Commons
