Logos, institution names, the title and the beginning of the text on the same page of a report

Question

I'd like to write a report in French but without a separate title page. I tried geophysics template that does it very well, but it imposes "abstract" that I didn't manage to convert into "résumé" even if I tried all the hacks that I've found here. If I delete "abstract", I lose title and author. Anyway, I don't need to write an abstract, but it doesn't bother me to do it if there's no other way out, but it should be in French. There's my code of the first page from scratch:

\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\usepackage{subcaption}

\usepackage{subcaption}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}


\begin{document}

\centering
\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}
    \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{images/logo1.jpg}
\end{tabular}
    \begin{tabular}{@{}c@{}}
        \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{images/logo2.png}
\end{tabular}

\begin{center}
        {\large FirstInstitution \& SecondInstitution}
\end{center}
\title{Rapport\\ 
"The report title"}
\author{Name}
\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\section{Introduction}


\end{document}

The problem is that logos and institution names are on the first page and the following text turns out to be on the second page. I tried to put the institution names into \institute{} and the logos into \titlegraphic{} as in logo in the first page only, but it doesn't help. I also tried to use \usepackage{titling} as in Title, abstract, and text beginning on same page. It changes nothing.

Answer 1

As (slightly incorrect) noted in my comment: use \makeatletter, to be able, to work with the internal variables in your document. Than, use the variables, which are filled by the known \title, \author and date-commands, to define the content of your title block.

\documentclass[english,draft]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%%% Some useful variables . . .
\title{The Report Title}
\author{Name}
\date{19.\ Januar 2022}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter
\begin{center}
    \Huge Report  \\ 
    \@title\\        
    \vspace{.5cm}       
    {\large \@author}\\
    {\large \@date}
\end{center}
\makeatother

\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}

This will give:

Ideally, you would also define a new command (before `\begin{document}:

\newcommand{\mymaketitle}{
  \begin{center}
      \Huge Report  \\ 
      \@title\\        
      \vspace{.5cm}       
      {\large \@author}\\
      {\large \@date}
  \end{center}
}

So your document could shrink to this:

\documentclass[english,draft]{article}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lipsum}
%%% Some useful variables . . .
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\mymaketitle}{
  \begin{center}
      \Huge Report  \\ 
      \@title\\        
      \vspace{.5cm}       
      {\large \@author}\\
      {\large \@date}
  \end{center}
}
\title{The Report Title}
\author{Name}
\date{19.\ Januar 2022}

\begin{document}

\mymaketitle

\lipsum[1-3]
\end{document}

and you even might think of writing your own style file (e.g. specialtitle.sty) and loding it in your documents with \usepackage{specialtitle}.

Answer 2

@John Kormylo, thank you for the idea! I finally used the first approach, which is easier: I didn't use \maketitle and I replaced it by:

\begin{center}
    \Huge Report  \\ 
    "The report title"\\        
    \vspace{.5cm}       
    \large {Name}
\end{center}

I've found it in this template: IMPERIAL COLLEGE template