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Limoges

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

Limoges is known worldwide for its porcelain and ceramics.

Limoges was the bithplace of:

Jean Daurat (or Dorat) (1508-1588), poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade[?]
Thomas Robert Bugeaud de la Piconnerie, Duke of Isly (1784-1849), marshal of France
Marie François Sadi Carnot (1837-1894), President of France
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), preeminent French painter

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