The Stade des Ponts Jumeaux (the "Twin Bridges Stadium") was a

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

stadium, inaugurated on 24 November 1907, in the ''Ponts Jumeaux'' district of

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

, south-western France.Rugby Nomads web-site, in French
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Stade Toulousain Stade Toulousain () ( oc, Estadi Tolosenc), also referred to as Toulouse, is a professional rugby union club based in Toulouse, France. They compete in the Top 14, France's top division of rugby, and the European Rugby Champions Cup. Toulou ...

rugby team – with financial assistance from city notables – then headed by a law professor from the

University of Toulouse The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the Frenc ...

, Ernest Wallon. The stadium, nicknamed ''Le Wallon'', had a capacity of 6500 and hosted many internationals during its existence. In the early 1980s, the land on which the stadium stood was compulsorily purchased to make way for the Toulouse ringroad and the ''Stade Toulousain'' moved from the ''Ponts Jumeaux'' to a new stadium at ''Sept-Deniers'', later renamed '' Stade Ernest-Wallon''. One of the pavilions at ''Stade Ernest-Wallon'' is named after the ''Ponts Jumeaux''.Stade Toulousain history page, in French
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