Corrèze (; ) is a
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. There are a total of 101 ...
in
France
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, named after the river
Corrèze
Corrèze (; ) is a département in France, named after the river Corrèze which runs through it. Although its prefecture is Tulle, its most populated city is Brive-la-Gaillarde. Corrèze is located in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, on the bo ...
which runs through it. Although its
prefecture
A prefecture (from the Latin word, "''praefectura"'') is an administrative jurisdiction traditionally governed by an appointed prefect. This can be a regional or local government subdivision in various countries, or a subdivision in certain inter ...
is
Tulle
Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...
, its most populated city is
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of ), commonly known as simply Brive, is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the aggl ...
. Corrèze is located in the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...
region
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, on the border with
Occitania
Occitania is the historical region in Southern Europe where the Occitan language was historically spoken and where it is sometimes used as a second language. This cultural area roughly encompasses much of the southern third of France (except ...
and
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (; AURA) or ; or ; . is a Regions of France, region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. The new region came into e ...
.
In 2019, Corrèze had a population of 240,073,
[Populations légales 2019: 19 Corrèze]
INSEE divided among
279 communes. Its inhabitants are called ''Corréziens'' (masculine) and ''Corréziennes'' (feminine). Its
INSEE and postal code is 19.
Geography
The department makes up of most of Lower Limousin and owes its name to the Corrèze river whose entire course flows through the centre, and passes through the two main cities,
Tulle
Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...
and
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of ), commonly known as simply Brive, is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the aggl ...
. Tulle is the
prefecture
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of Corrèze, and Brive-la-Gaillarde the largest city.
Location
Since 2015, the department is administered by the
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Nouvelle-Aquitaine () is the largest Regions of France, administrative region in France by area, spanning the west and southwest of Metropolitan France. The region was created in 2014 by the merging of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes ...
region
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. To the north, it borders the departments of
Haute-Vienne
Haute-Vienne (; , ; Upper Vienne) is a département in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve départements that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The prefecture an ...
and the
Creuse
Creuse (; or ) is a department in central France named after the river Creuse. After Lozère, it is the second least populated department in France. It is bordered by Indre and Cher to the north, Allier and Puy-de-Dôme to the east, Cor ...
, to the east, the departments of
Puy-de-Dôme
Puy-de-Dôme (; or ''lo Puèi Domat'') is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in the centre of France. In 2021, it had a population of 662,285.[Cantal
Cantal (; or ) is a rural Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of France, with its Prefectures in France, prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour, Cantal, Saint-Flou ...]
, to the south of that of the
Lot and, finally, to the west of that of the
Dordogne
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.
Geology and relief
Located west of the
Massif Central, it consists of three zones: the Mountains (''Montagne''), the plateaus and the Brive Basin.
The mountains' peak at 977 m at
Mount Bessou. Its
Rhenohercynian Zone formation is quite eroded.
The plateaus have deep valleys that head towards the
Dordogne
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river, such as at the Gimel waterfalls.
South-west of Corrèze, the Brive
sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to form a large three-dimensional body of sedimentary rock They form when long-term subsidence ...
enjoys a more favourable climate. There are sandstone hills like
Collonges-la-Rouge.
Hydrography
The department is crossed by several rivers, such as
Vézère
The Vézère (; ) is a 211-km-long river in southwestern France. It is an important tributary to the Dordogne (river), Dordogne. Its source is in the northwestern part of the elevated plateau known as the Massif Central. It flows into the Dordog ...
, Corrèze or the Dordogne.
Climate
The department transitions between the
Aquitaine
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and the Massif Central, the Corrèze department sees its elevation gradually rise from the basin of Brive to the Plateau de Millevaches, watershed of the Atlantic facade. This relief explains the wide variety of climates of Corrèze.
Principal towns
The most populous commune is
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of ), commonly known as simply Brive, is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the aggl ...
; the prefecture
Tulle
Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...
is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are 7 communes with more than 4,000 inhabitants:
[
]
History
Corrèze is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It includes part of the former province of Limousin
Limousin (; ) is a former administrative region of southwest-central France. Named after the old province of Limousin, the administrative region was founded in 1960. It comprised three departments: Corrèze, Creuse, and Haute-Vienne. On 1 Jan ...
(the Bas-Limousin).
Within Corrèze the nineteenth-century railway planners, influenced in part by the department's topography, endowed Brive-la-Gaillarde
Brive-la-Gaillarde (; Limousin dialect of ), commonly known as simply Brive, is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture and the largest city of the Corrèze department. It has around 46,000 inhabitants, while the population of the aggl ...
with good connections and a major junction from which railway lines fanned out in six different directions. The railways arrived in 1860, at an opportune moment, directly after phylloxera
Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America. Grape phylloxera (''Daktulosphaira vitifoliae'' (Fitch 1855) belongs to the family Phylloxeridae, within the order Hemiptera, bugs); orig ...
had destroyed the local wine industry. The new railways enabled the farms in the area surrounding Brive to specialise in fruits and vegetables which they could now transport rapidly to the larger population centres of central and southern France. Locally, the new agriculture triggered the development, in the Brive basin, of related businesses and industries such as the manufacture of jams and liquors, as well as timber/paper-based packaging businesses.
Demographics
The 1851 census recorded a population of 320,866: this remained relatively constant for the rest of the nineteenth century. During the twentieth century, however, Corrèze shared the experience of many of the country's rural departments as the population fell steadily.
Politics
The President of the General Council was François Hollande
François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...
of the Socialist Party
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until 2012 when he was elected President of the Republic. Jacques Chirac
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also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly from here for many years.
Current National Assembly Representatives
Tourism
File:Uzerche, Église Saint-Pierre-PM 18517.jpg, Uzerche
Uzerche (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Corrèze Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region of central France.
In 1787, the English writer Arthur Young described the town as "the pearl of ...
File:Tulle 2207.jpg, Tulle
Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...
File:Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne Limousin France 2010 Kapel des Pénitents 4.jpg, Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne
Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne (, literally ''Beaulieu on Dordogne (river), Dordogne''; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Corrèze Departments of France, department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine Regions of France, region, central France. Beaulieu is ...
File:Collonges-la-Rouge place.JPG, Collonges-la-Rouge
File:Argentat, July 2009.jpg, Argentat
People
People who were born or have significantly lived in Corrèze include:
* Étienne Baluze
Étienne Baluze (24 November 1630 – 28 July 1718), known also as Stephanus Baluzius, was a French scholar and historiographer.
Biography
Born in Tulle, he was educated at his native town, at the Jesuit college, where he studied the Arts. He ...
(1630–1718), scholar and personal librarian of Colbert
* Guillaume Marie Anne Brune (1763–1815), marshal of France
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, marshal of the Empire and godfather of author Alexandre Dumas
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His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the mos ...
* Jean Cazeneuve (1915–2005), philosopher and sociologist, president of the ORTF and of TF1
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* Jacques Chirac
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(1932–2019), deputy to the Assemblée Nationale for Corrèze (1967–1995), President of the departement's General Council (1970–1979), Prime Minister of France
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The prime ...
(1974–1976 and 1986–1988), Mayor of Paris
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The officeholder is responsible for the administration and management of the city, submits proposals and recommendations to ...
(1977–1995) and 22nd President of the French Republic
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(1995–2007)
* Bernadette Chirac
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She and Chirac met as students at Sciences Po, and were married on 16 March 1956. They ...
(1933– ), member of the departement's General Council and aide to the mayor of Sarran
* Pope Clement VI
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(1291–1352), 198th pope
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, born Pierre Roger in Rosiers-d'Égletons
* In 1879 Adolphe Clément-Bayard
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built an iron smelter in Tulle to supply his Parisian cycle manufacturing business, but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable.
* Marcel Conche (1922– ), philosopher
* Bernard de Ventadour (1135–1195), a famous troubadour
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born at the castle of Ventadour
* Jacques Delors
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(1925– ), economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission
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(1985–1994), father of socialist leader Martine Aubry
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* Thomas Domingo (1985– ), French international rugby union
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player
* Guillaume Dubois
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Life and government
Early years
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(1656–1723), cardinal
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* Cardinalidae, a family of North and South American birds
**''Cardinalis'', genus of three species in the family Cardinalidae
***Northern cardinal, ''Cardinalis cardinalis'', the common cardinal of ...
and statesman, Prime Minister of France
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The prime ...
during the Régence
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* Léon Eyrolles (1861–1945), entrepreneur and politician
* David Feuerwerker (1912–1980), Rabbi and resistance member
* Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003), lawyer and resistance member
* Eugène Freyssinet (1879–1962), structural
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and civil engineer
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, major pioneer of prestressed concrete
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* Pope Gregory XI
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(1329–1378), 201st pope and last French pope, born Pierre Roger de Beaufort in Rosiers-d'Egletons
* Cédric Heymans (1978– ), French international rugby union
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player
* François Hollande
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(1954– ), deputy for Corrèze (1988–1993 and 1997–2012), mayor of Tulle
Tulle (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in central France. It is the third-largest town in the former region of Limousin and is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Corrèze, in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle- ...
(2001–2008), President of the department's General Council (2008–2012), leader of the Socialist Party
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(1997–2008), 24th President of the French Republic
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(2012–2017)
* The House of La Tour d'Auvergne
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, viscounts of Turenne
* The House of Noailles
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History
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, dukes of Noailles and Ayen, which provided three marshals of France
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, one admiral of France
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and one archbishop of Paris
* Pope Innocent VI (1295–1362), 199th pope, born Etienne Aubert in Beyssac
* Laurent Koscielny (1985– ), footballer
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who plays for Arsenal
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in the Premier League
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* Pierre-André Latreille (1762–1833), zoologist
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and entomologist
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* André Malraux
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(1901–1976), writer, adventurer and statesman, member of the French Resistance in Corrèze during the Second World War
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* Max Mamers (1943), born in Objat, racing driver, two-time champion of France of rallycross, organizer of the Andros
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Trophy and the Paris-Corrèze
* Jean-Antoine Marbot (1754–1800), general
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of the French Army
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and politician, deputy of Correze in the Legislative Assembly, deputy of Corrèze in the Council of the Ancients, twice elected President of the Council of the Ancients
* Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot (1781–1844), general
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of the French Army
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* Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot (1782–1854), general
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of the French Army
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, author of the famous ''Memoirs of General Marbot''
* Edmond Michelet (1899–1970), politician and statesman, who did the first act of resistance of World War II in France by distributing tracts calling to continue the war in all Brive-la-Gaillarde
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's mailboxes on 17 June 1940, one day before Charles de Gaulle
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's Appeal of 18 June
* Richard Millet (1953— ), novelist and essayist, born in Viam.
* Marie-Anne Montchamp (1957– ), politician, former Secretary of State for Solidarities and Social Cohesion (2010–2012)
* Pierre Neuville (1922– ), author of "Les combats de ma vie" SDE (2013).
* Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan (1914–1963), the last empress consort of the Nguyễn dynasty
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in Vietnam
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* Robert Nivelle
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(1856–1924), general
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, commander-in-chief of the French armies on the Western Front in 1917
* Valérie Pécresse
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(1967– ), politician, former Minister of Higher Education and Research (2007–2011), former Minister of the Budget and Government's Spokeswoman (2011–2012)
* Edmond Perrier
Jean Octave Edmond Perrier (9 May 1844 – 31 July 1921) was a French zoologist born in Tulle. He is known for his studies of invertebrates (annelids and echinoderms). He was the brother of zoologist Rémy Perrier (1861–1936).
Career
On advice ...
(1844–1921), anatomist and zoologist
* Henri Queuille (1884–1970), mayor of Neuvic (1912–1965), deputy for Corrèze (1914–1935 and 1946–1958), senator
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for Corrèze (1935–1941) who refused to vote full powers to Pétain in 1940, three times Prime Minister of France
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during the Fourth Republic
* Eric Rohmer
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(1920–2010), film director
* Patrick Sébastien (1953– ), born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, man of television, singer
* René Teulade (1931–2014), member of the Senate
* Denis Tillinac (1947– ), author and journalist
* Pierre Tornade (1930–2012), actor, born in Bort-les-Orgues
* Jean-Baptiste Treilhard (1742–1810), political figure of the French Revolution, member of Committee of Public Safety
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, president of the Convention that judged and sentenced to death King
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Louis XVI
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, member of the Directory and one of the redactors of the Napoleonic code
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s; he is buried in the Panthéon
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* Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973), politician and archeologist
* Varg Vikernes
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(1973– ), Norwegian musician and writer
* Cédric Villani
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(1973– ), mathematician, Fields Medalist in 2010
* Pierre Villepreux (1943– ), rugby player
* Rose Warfman (1916–2016 ), resistance member
* Dimitri Yachvili
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(1980– ), French international rugby union
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player
See also
* Arrondissements of the Corrèze department
* Cantons of the Corrèze department
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* Canton of Allassac, Allassac
* Canton of ...
* Communes of the Corrèze department
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References
External links
*
Prefecture website
*
Departmental Council website
lacorreze.com
a lot of photos
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1790 establishments in France
Departments of Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Massif Central
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
States and territories established in 1790