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unusual facts about Haute Vienne



Stephen of Muret

His head is preserved in the parish Church of St. Sylvestre, Canton of Laurière (in the Haute Vienne département).


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Adrien Tixier

Adrien Tixier (31 January 1893, Folles (Haute-Vienne) – 18 February 1946, Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and Free French ambassador to the United States.

Chalus

Châlus, a commune in the Haute-Vienne département of France

Château de Rochechouart

Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth-century French castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune of Rochechouart within the département of Haute-Vienne.

Henri Bonnet

Henri Bonnet (26 May 1888 Châteauponsac (Haute-Vienne) – 25 October 1978 Paris) was a French politician, diplomat, and French ambassador to the United States from 1944 to 1954.

Ingolsheim

The village was one of many Alsatian communities located near the frontier to be evacuated to Haute-Vienne, in this case to the village of Bessines-sur-Gartempe.

Jean-Paul Denanot

Between 1992 and 2004, he was Mayor of the town of Feytiat, in Haute-Vienne, a post which he gave up in order to become President of the Regional Council of Limousin.

La Wantzenau

The town is twinned with Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche in Haute-Vienne because the population of La Wantzenau was evacuated there at the start of the war with Germany in 1939.

Mont Gargan

Contrary to what is widely stated in books and maps, Mount Gargan is not the highest point in Haute-Vienne; the forest of Crozat and the puy de Lauzat, 25 kilometres to the north-east near Nedde, are higher, at 777 metres above sea level.

Rameauite

It was first described in 1972 for an occurrence in the Margnac Mine, Compreignac, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France and named after Jacques Rameau (1926–1960), French prospector at the "Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique", who discovered the deposit where the mineral occurs.

Theophanis Lamboukas

Sarapo died at the side of the road in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, following an automobile accident on 28 August 1970.

Thierry Mutin

Thierry Mutin is a French singer of classical music and songwriter (born in Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne), famous for his 1988 hit single "Sketch of Love".