L'Union is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne

Haute-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river. Its main city is Toulouse.-History:Haute-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc.The...

 department in southwestern France.

It is a suburb of Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

, located just to the north east of the city.

History

L'Union was founded in the 1790s after the fusion of Belbèze and Cornaudric. After leaving Spain, Napoleon's troops, under the command of Field Marshal and Marshal of the Empire Soult, battled with at the commune troops under the command of the Duke of Wellington

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

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. The name Saint-Jean-de-l'Union is still spoken of, recalling the time when the communes of Saint-Jean et L'Union were unified.

Population

Education

L'Union has three nursury and primary schools (Belbèze-lès-Toulouse, Borde d'Olivier and Montizalguier), and one high school (Le collège Georges Chaumeton, named after the former mayor).

Sights

L'Union features an olive tree

Olive Tree

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 celebrating the new millennium, at the Town Hall. The Grand Hall of L'Union regularly welcomes artists. Its church features architecture of the nineteenth century.

Sport

L'Union has a sport club, established in 1957, called the ASU, with more than 5000 members and 300 organisers, and 26 different sports such as yoga

Yoga

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, football, handball

Team handball

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, rugby

Rugby football

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 and tennis

Tennis

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. The main park of L'Union is Parc de Malpagat, on the D888 road.

Transport

The D888 (Route d'Albi) road runs through the town in a south-west direction towards Toulouse and north-east to Albi, roughly 75 kilometres away. The A68 motorway (Toulouse-Albi) and the Périphérique bypass the south of L'Union, served by Junctions 1 and 14 respectively.

In a clockwise order, L'Union is bordered by Toulouse, Saint-Jean, Montrabé

Montrabé

Montrabé is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department of southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...

, Gramont

Gramont

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and Borderouge.