About

The roadway of Bazacle is a place of interest and historical from Haute-Garonne located in Toulouse on the Garonne (fitted of Bazacle).

Built on a natural ford, the Bazacle has blocked the passage of the River Garonne since the 12th century. The 21 lords who were the old equivalent of customs officers received payments in the form of flour for allowing people to cross. In 1907 the Toulouse Electricity Company took over the flourmills, thus allowing the inhabitants of Toulouse to have light. Today this hydroelectric factory (EDF-Bazacle) welcomes 65,000 visitors per year and puts on exhibitions concerning technical subjects, the environment and more. In spring and autumn youngsters watch enchanted the migration of sea salmon and trout through a window beneath the fish pass.

The benefit were distributed between shareholders according to the number of shares in their possession, gradually these shares were exchanged between lords on the market of Toulouse, their courses varied according to the output of the mills.

Bazacle becomes thus the oldest joint stock company in the world.

It is since 1888 that the mills of Bazacle will become gradually producers of electricity and in 1946 property of EDF.

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