Having stumbled into Tournefeuille...

We don't know where you are seated, but now that you are here, take a peek through the windows of our site, amble peaceably through the leafy lanes of our village. Tournefeuille, the village where Magelis is located, is located in South-Western France, just outside the city of Toulouse and in sight of the Pyrenees mountain range. Tournefeuille means "Turn-leaf", and effectively the village is lodged among wooded surroundings.

 

		Our building dates from 1749 - luckily, it was renovated last year. There is a childrens' bookshop at street level. Our business neighbours include an insurer, a doctor, and a company that imports Spanish sausages. The Magelis office is through the little door and up the stairs, to the right. If you are a patient person, reconnect in a few days time, and push inside the little door...
	Under the archway, and into the parking lot. Morning arrival usually greets us with the smell of baking bread from the boulangerie's oven next door.
Our parking lot possesses a rose-bush climbing a trellis. There used to be a palm-tree, but it was run over...

We are located at 129, rue Gaston Doumergue, which is the main street running through Tournefeuille. Gaston Doumergue, who was president of France in the twenties, gave his name to the street, as its most notable resident. He lived in a large house which has since been turned into offices.

If you go downstairs from our office and turn right, you will encounter a variety of food shops, some artisans, a restaurant, a café, some banks, a pharmacy, and a disproportionate number of hairdressers.	It is an intimate street, most of the buildings are just two storeys high.
	This is the boulangerie-patisserie - the bakery and chocolate maker - whose smell makes our mornings so sweet.
This is Tournefeuille's church. It bears a regional architectural feature, known as a "mur-clocher", a "bell-wall". As you can see, this is a high, flat front facade, carrying a battery of boisterous bells.