Unlike, for example, Franche-Comté, Midi-Pyrénées doesn't relate to a historical French region. It was created in the 1970s so that Toulouse could be capital of it. Job-creation on a grand scale. It worked, and Toulouse, formerly a bit out-of-the-way (think Taunton) is now Europe's fastest-growing city. In 1999 Toulouse paid off its debts and became France's first large city ever to achieve solvency. Toulouse is now exempt from overdraft charges and probably gets free ski insurance and AA membership.
In the Middle Ages, Toulouse was ruled by the Counts of Toulouse, including Chorso (c.790) Beggo (806-816) and Odo (886-918). No mention is made of Harpo. Little is known about these early rulers, except that Odo married Garsenda, daughter of Ermengol of Albi, and "probably had three children" - which suggests a degree of absent-mindedness inappropriate in a man of high office.
La Résidence - THE French Property People
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