Limoges

Limoges (Limòtges in Occitan) is a city and commune in France, the préfecture of the Haute-Vienne département, and the administrative capital of the Limousin région. Population city : 137,502 (limougeauds), urban area: 247,944.

Miscellaneous

• A small university was founded at Limoges in 1968.
  
• Richard I of England (Richard the Lionheart) was killed by a crossbow bolt wound to the shoulder just south of Limoges in 1199.

Births

Limoges was the bithplace of:

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• Jean Daurat (or Dorat) (1508-1588), poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade
• Henri François d'Aguesseau (1668-1751), chancellor of France
• Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud (1753-1793), orator and revolutionary
• Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762-1833), marshal of France
• Stephen Grellet (1773?1855), Quaker missionary
• Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Duke of Isly (1784-1849), marshal of France
• Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut (1825-1895), critic
• Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), President of France
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), preeminent French painter

Twin towns

• Charlotte, North Carolina, United States)
• Fürth, Germany
• Hrodna, Belarus
• Plzen, Czech Republic
• Seto, Japan