Corrèze

Corrèze (French pronunciation: [kɔʁɛz] ^ⓘ; Occitan: Corresa) 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 border with Occitania and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

For other uses, see Corrèze (disambiguation).

Corrèze

Corresa (Occitan)

France

Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Tulle

Brive-la-Gaillarde
Ussel

Pascal Coste^[1] (LR)

5,857 km² (2,261 sq mi)

239,784

84th

41/km² (110/sq mi)

UTC+1 (CET)

UTC+2 (CEST)

Brive-la-Gaillarde

279

In 2019, Corrèze had a population of 240,073,^[3] divided among 279 communes. Its inhabitants are called Corréziens (masculine) and Corréziennes (feminine). Its INSEE and postal code is 19.

History[edit]

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 (the Bas-Limousin).

Within Corrèze the nineteenth-century railway planners, influenced in part by the department's topography, endowed Brive-la-Gaillarde 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 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.

Uzerche

Tulle

Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne

Collonges-la-Rouge

Argentat

The , dukes of Noailles and Ayen, which provided three marshals of France, one admiral of France and one archbishop of Paris

House of Noailles

The , viscounts of Turenne

House of La Tour d'Auvergne

(1135–1195), a famous troubadour born at the castle of Ventadour

Bernard de Ventadour

(1291–1352), 198th pope, born Pierre Roger in Rosiers-d'Égletons

Pope Clement VI

(1295–1362), 199th pope, born Etienne Aubert in Beyssac

Pope Innocent VI

(1329–1378), 201st pope and last French pope, born Pierre Roger de Beaufort in Rosiers-d'Egletons

Pope Gregory XI

(1630–1718), scholar and personal librarian of Colbert

Étienne Baluze

(1656–1723), cardinal and statesman, Prime Minister of France during the Régence

Guillaume Dubois

(1742–1810), political figure of the French Revolution, member of Committee of Public Safety, president of the Convention that judged and sentenced to death King Louis XVI, member of the Directory and one of the redactors of the Napoleonic codes; he is buried in the Panthéon

Jean-Baptiste Treilhard

(1754–1800), general of the French Army 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

Jean-Antoine Marbot

(1762–1833), zoologist and entomologist

Pierre-André Latreille

(1763–1815), marshal of France, marshal of the Empire and godfather of author Alexandre Dumas

Guillaume Marie Anne Brune

(1781–1844), general of the French Army

Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot

(1782–1854), general of the French Army, author of the famous Memoirs of General Marbot

Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot

(1844–1921), anatomist and zoologist

Edmond Perrier

(1856–1924), general, commander-in-chief of the French armies on the Western Front in 1917

Robert Nivelle

(1861–1945), entrepreneur and politician

Léon Eyrolles

(1879–1962), structural and civil engineer, major pioneer of prestressed concrete

Eugène Freyssinet

In 1879 built an iron smelter in Tulle to supply his Parisian cycle manufacturing business, but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable.

Adolphe Clément-Bayard

(1881–1973), politician and archeologist

Marius Vazeilles

(1884–1970), mayor of Neuvic (1912–1965), deputy for Corrèze (1914–1935 and 1946–1958), senator for Corrèze (1935–1941) who refused to vote full powers to Pétain in 1940, three times Prime Minister of France during the Fourth Republic

Henri Queuille

(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's mailboxes on 17 June 1940, one day before Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of 18 June

Edmond Michelet

(1912–2003), lawyer and resistance member

Antoinette Feuerwerker

(1912–1980), Rabbi and resistance member

David Feuerwerker

(1914–1963), the last empress consort of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam

Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan

(1915–2005), philosopher and sociologist, president of the ORTF and of TF1

Jean Cazeneuve

(1922– ), author of "Les combats de ma vie" SDE (2013).

Pierre Neuville

(1925– ), economist and politician, 8th President of the European Commission (1985–1994), father of socialist leader Martine Aubry

Jacques Delors

(1901–1976), writer, adventurer and statesman, member of the French Resistance in Corrèze during the Second World War

André Malraux

(1932–2019), deputy to the Assemblée Nationale for Corrèze (1967–1995), President of the departement's General Council (1970–1979), Prime Minister of France (1974–1976 and 1986–1988), Mayor of Paris (1977–1995) and 22nd President of the French Republic (1995–2007)

Jacques Chirac

(1933– ), member of the departement's General Council and aide to the mayor of Sarran

Bernadette Chirac

(1954– ), deputy for Corrèze (1988–1993 and 1997–2012), mayor of Tulle (2001–2008), President of the department's General Council (2008–2012), leader of the Socialist Party (1997–2008), 24th President of the French Republic (2012–2017)

François Hollande

(1930–2012), actor born in Bort-les-Orgues.

Pierre Tornade

(1916–2016 ), resistance member

Rose Warfman

(1920–2010), film director

Eric Rohmer

(1922– ), philosopher

Marcel Conche

(1943), born in Objat, racing driver two times champion of France of rallycross, organizer of the Andros Trophy and the Paris-Corrèze.

Max Mamers

(1953– ), born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, a man of television, singer.

Patrick Sébastien

(1943– ), rugby player

Pierre Villepreux

(1947– ), author and journalist

Denis Tillinac

(1953— ), novelist and essayist, born in Viam.

Richard Millet

(1957– ), politician, former Secretary of State for Solidarities and Social Cohesion (2010–2012)

Marie-Anne Montchamp

(1967– ), politician, former Minister of Higher Education and Research (2007–2011), former Minister of the Budget and Government's Spokeswoman (2011–2012)

Valérie Pécresse

(1931–2014), member of the Senate

René Teulade

(1973– ), mathematician, Fields Medalist in 2010

Cédric Villani

(1978– ), French international rugby union player

Cédric Heymans

(1980– ), French international rugby union player

Dimitri Yachvili

(1985– ), footballer who plays for Arsenal in the Premier League

Laurent Koscielny

(1985– ), French international rugby union player

Thomas Domingo

(1973– ), Norwegian musician and writer

Varg Vikernes

People who were born or have significantly lived in Corrèze include:

Cantons of the Corrèze department

Communes of the Corrèze department

Arrondissements of the Corrèze department

(in French)

Prefecture website