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November 22, 2007
Limoges 870085 87000
Haute-Vienne Limousin
45.850 1.250 298 m

Chapel of the "Sainte-Marie de la Règle" Abbey of the IXe XVIIIe centuries.

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This chapel is next to the Saint-Étienne cathedral XIIIe XVIe XIXe centuries.

817 : Founded by Louis le Débonnaire, the abbey was an important convent of women, under the authority of abbesses resulting from the nobility limousine.
1790: With the Revolution, the buildings of the abbey become a house of detention before being practically destroyed.
1905: The Great Seminar created under Ier Empire gives up the places.
1960: The majority of the buildings of the abbey were shaven. There remains of the old abbey itself only one splendid underground under the site of the home of the abbess.
the vault of the seminar, ever devoted, shelters the Museum of Resistance.

Limoges is a city of the mid-west of France, prefecture of the department of Haute-Vienne, chief town of the Limousin area, populated of 137 502 Limougeauds and Limougeaudes, distributed on 77 km², is 1 730 hab./km².
It is the "capital of the ceramicses" because of the historical establishment of the porcelain industry, and the craft industry of enamel and the stained glasses.
The climate is moderate oceanic of western frontage, with light mountain tendency, due in the vicinity of the Central Solid mass.
The name of Limoges comes from that of the Gallic tribe of Lémovices, alive on the Limousin territory during Antiquity.
Limoges is located at the north of the cultural zone of the language of Oc, (Langue d'Oc).

Following the French setback of August 1914, First World War, the General Joffre, not yet marshal, assigned with residence in Limoges, the staff officers which it had raised of their command. From this episode was born the term "Limogeage", dismissal.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoges

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