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![[Flag of Tourcoing]](../images/f/fr-59-tc.gif)
Flag of Tourcoing - Image by Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002
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The town of Tourcoing (in Dutch, Toerkonje; 100,000 inhabitants,
Tourquennois) is part of the Communauté Urbaine de
Lille, formerly known as Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing. Tourcoing is
the capital of wool industry in France (c.11,500 workers). One
third of French carded wool is manufactured in Tourcoing, which is
also renown for its carpet, clothing and hosiery factories. In the
past, wool was carried in wheelbarrows, in French brouettes,
and the inhabitants of the city were nicknamed broutteux.
The belltower (85 m) of the St. Christophe's Church hosts a peal
of 49 bells. In 1971, a bell ringing class was opened in the Music
Academy (Conservatoire) of Tourcoing.
Tourcoing is the birth city of the French musician Albert Roussel (1869-1937), who wrote several symphonies, symphonic poems (Evocations, 1911), ballet musics (Le Festin de l'Araignée, 1913, Bacchus et Ariane, 1931; Aeneas, 1935), orchestral suites (Suite en Fa, 1926), and opéra ballets (Padmavati, 1923). Roussel is one of the best French symphonists of the beginning of the XXth century. Before being a musician, he was a Cadet in the French Navy, and his travel impressions inspired his music. The house in which Roussel spent most of his youth in now the Municipal Museum of Tourcoing.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002
The flag of Tourcoing is a banner of the municipal arms. It has a
white field with a black cross and three yellow discs in each arm of
the cross. The Guide Vert Michelin Flandre Artois Picardie,
the source of most of the information presented above, says that the
emblem of the city is a wheelbarrow. I guess the guide refers to the
municipal logotype.
The flag must be very popular because it is used, along with
several other flags combining white and green colours, by the
supporters of the volley-ball club of
Tourcoing.
Ivan Sache, 5 May 2002
![[Tourcoing LM]](../images/f/fr-59@tc.gif)
Flag of TLM - Image by Ivan Sache, 4 May 2003
The flag hanging on the wall of the sport hall during volley-ball matches of Tourcoing L(ille) M(étropole) is a green-white chequy of 5 rows x 10 columns, starting with a green square in the upper left corner. Green and white are also the colours of the players' clothes.
Ivan Sache, 4 May 2003