To the south-east of the town about 1.5 km in a direct line is the railway station of La Marsalouse which is served by TER Limousin and TER Auvergne trains which link Clermont-Ferrand to Gare de Limoges-Bénédictins and Gare de Brive-la-Gaillarde.
The Battle of Malemort occurred on the 21 April 1177 between the mercenary forces of Richard the Lion-hearted and the citizens of Malemort-sur-Corrèze in the Limousin.
By the early 1970s, the Beef Shorthorn breeders were concerned their cattle were too small and lacked muscle, especially when compared with the continental breeds of cattle, such as the Charolais or Limousin - that were starting to be introduced to the UK.
In September 1879, Clément built an iron smelter in Tulle, in the Limousin where there was a good supply of water power, but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable and Tulle was too remote from Paris, so he had to sell the plant.
Eble or Ebles d'Ussel (also d'Ussèl or d'Uisel; fl. c. 1200) was a Limousin troubadour, the eldest of three brothers, castellans of the castle of Ussel-sur-Sarzonne, northeast of Ventadorn.
In the northern regions of Occitania:Auvergne, is found the (generally) bellows blown cabreta, and in Limousin the mouth blown chabreta.
Also in the Limousin is the smaller castle of Château de Saint-Hilaire et des Plas at Curemonte.
In 1939, Hatten being on the Maginot Line, the authorities arranged for the town's 1,500 inhabitants to be evacuated to Châteauponsac in the Limousin region six hundred kilometres to the southwest.
During the 10th century the Limousin was divided in many seigneuries; the most important among them, located in the southern part of the region, were the vicomtés of Limoges, Comborn (in the present-day Corrèze), Ventadour (today Ussel and Plateau de Millevaches) and Turenne.
It was discovered in 1825 and named in 1826 for the type locality, Les Hureaux, Saint-Sylvestre, Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France.
He went to Ambazac, in the Limousin, where he adopted the pseudonym Izis and where he was arrested and tortured by the Nazis.
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.
A regular attendant at the Limousin Festival International des Francophonies, he briefly lived in Limoges, France.
:For St. Leonard of Limousin go to Saint Leonard of Noblac
But the Limousin was South to the line of demarcation and the resistance was mainly a passive one against Vichy France.
Obazine Abbey, also known as Aubazine Abbey, was a Cistercian monastery in the present town of Aubazine in the département of Corrèze in the Limousin in France.
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The Obazine Abbey had foundations in Limousin and Quercy, as farms all around Rocamadour, a famous sacred place of pilgrimage.
Psalmodius became a hermit in a small cell in the forest of Grigeas or Grie, in the Limousin near Eymoutiers.
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.
His search for subjects led him to the basilica at Vézelay and to the Limousin for views of Uzerche and Crozant, as Armand Guillaumin had done before him.
Vita Hludovici or the "Limousin Astronomer", the anonymous author of the Vita Hludovici, a biography of Holy Roman Emperor Louis the Pious
André-Pierre Nouvion, Trois familles en Périgord-Limousin dans la tourmente de la Révolution et de L'Empire : Nouvion, Besse-Soutet-Dupuy et Chassériau, Paris, 2007
The Thiviers-Payzac Unit, sometimes still called Thiviers-Payzac Nappe or Bas-Limousin Group, was named after Thiviers and Payzac, two small towns in the northeastern Dordogne situated within the unit's outcrop area.
After a successful FTP offensive on 7 and 8 June 1944, the arrival of Das Reich troops forced the guerillas to evacuate the city of Tulle (Corrèze), in the Limousin region of France.
Images of the martyrdom became an important theme of Limousin art, both painting and sculpture, and later Limoges enamels.