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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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