Richard Toll is a town in northern Senegal

Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...

, lying on the south bank of the River Senegal, just east of Rosso

Rosso

Rosso is the major city of south-western Mauritania and capital of Trarza region. It is situated on the Senegal River at the head of year-round navigation. The town is 204 km south of the capital Nouakchott...

. Originally a colonial

Colony

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 town, it was name for the park of the Chateau de Baron Roger, laid out by botanist Jean Michel Claude Richard

Jean Michel Claude Richard

Jean Michel Claude Richard was a noted French botanist and plant collector active in Senegal, Madagascar, Mauritius, and Réunion, and a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.Richard was born in Volon, Haute-Saône...

. A rice growing scheme was originally initiated by France's colonial development organisation, FIDES, in 1949 with an initial cultivated area of 6000 hectares (14,826.3 acre). The town's main industry is sugar

Sugar

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. Estimated population 2007: 70,000.

Marie Laforet

Marie Laforêt

Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, .In 1978 she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.-The sources of her birth name:...

has a song about Richard Toll.