The park connects the station with the allées Paul Riquet where a large bronze statue by David d ' Angers celebrates the creator of the Canal du Midi, Pierre-Paul Riquet.

In 1467 the Tribunale della Mercanzia, the judicial organ of the Guilds in Florence, commissioned from Verrocchio a bronze group portraying Christ and St. Thomas for the centre tabernacle, which the Tribunale had recently purchased, on the east facade of Orsanmichele to replace a statue of St Louis of Toulouse, which had been removed.

The building had a large statue of Saint Ludwig of Toulouse on the front of the building.

The Canal du Midi was built by Pierre-Paul Riquet.

In 1662, Pierre-Paul Riquet, a rich tax-farmer in the Languedoc region, who knew the region intimately, believed he could solve the problem, but he first had to persuade Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister of Louis XIV, which he did through his friendship with the Archbishop of Toulouse.

Around 1665, Verro moved to the region of Toulouse where he was commissioned to decorate the Château Bonrepos, the property of Pierre-Paul Riquet, promoter of the Canal du Midi.

* Pierre-Paul Riquet ( 1609 or 1604 – 1680 ), engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi

Portrait of Pierre-Paul Riquet

Pierre-Paul Riquet ( June 29, 1609 ( some sources say 1604 ) – October 4, 1680 ) was the engineer and canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi.

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It was named after French engineer Pierre-Paul Riquet ( born Béziers, 1609 ; died Toulouse, 1680 ), who conceived and carried out the construction of the Canal du Midi from 1666.

Not all fermiers-généraux constrained their viewpoint to their own enrichment: Pierre-Paul Riquet, appointed collector in Roussillon-Languedoc in 1630, employed his fortune as the canal-builder responsible for the construction of the Canal du Midi that links the southern coast of France to Toulouse to link to the canal / river system that ran across to the Bay of Biscay, one of the great engineering feats of the 17th century.

Pierre-Paul Riquet began to organise the construction of the 240 km-long Canal du Midi in France in 1665 and it was opened in 1681.

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He returned from the trip and sought out Pierre-Paul Riquet as a patron.

In the 1760s, a few years after the famous Calas Affair in Toulouse, Castres made the headlines nationwide: Pierre-Paul Sirven and his wife, both Protestants, were wrongly accused of having murdered their daughter in order to prevent her from converting to Catholicism.

Riquet is the man responsible for building the 240-kilometre-long artificial waterway that links the southern coast of France to Toulouse to link to the canal / river system that ran across to the Bay of Biscay, one of the great engineering feats of the 17th century.

François-Joseph-Philippe de Riquet died in Toulouse on 2 March 1843.