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12 unusual facts about Perigueux


Adrien Greslon

Adrien Greslon (b. at Périgueux, in 1618; d. in 1697) was a French Jesuit missionary to China.

Cathedral of Saint Paul, National Shrine of the Apostle Paul

He had a budget of $1 million, and he based the cathedral on the designs of French churches at Périgueux and Paris, as well as French Renaissance and Classical themes.

Église Notre-Dame la Grande, Poitiers

This type of roof, frequent in the south-west, was often copied by the architects of the 19th century, in particular Paul Abadie in Angoulême, Périgueux and Bordeaux.

Faisceau

It worked hard to recruit people from the left, with some success: notably, Marcel Delagrange, former French Communist Party (PCF) mayor of Périgueux, and the anarcho-syndicalist (and future Vichy Régime minister) Hubert Lagardelle.

Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin

Henri Léonard Jean Baptiste Bertin (born March 24, 1720, Périgueux – September 16, 1792, Spa (Belgium)) was a French statesman, and controller general of finances of Louis XV (1759–1763).

Jean Verdier

He was ordained to the priesthood on April 9, 1887, and then taught at the seminary of Périgueux until 1898, serving as its rector from 1898 to 1912.

Louis Veuillot

With little education, he gained employment in a lawyer's office, and was sent in 1830 to serve with a newspaper of Rouen, and afterwards to Périgueux.

Périgueux

William Joseph Chaminade (1761–1850), founder of the Society of Mary (Marianists) and the Daughters of Mary Immaculate

Félix de Verneihl claims that St Front's was a copy of St Mark's Basilica in Venice; Quicherat, that it was copied from the church of the Holy Apostles of Constantinople.

Simone Mareuil (a lead actor from the surrealist film Un Chien Andalou) committed self-immolation on 24 October 1954 by dousing herself in gasoline and burning herself to death in a public square in Périgueux.

Périgueux railway station offers connections to Limoges, Bordeaux and Brive-la-Gaillarde and other regional destinations.

Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil

Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil (14 July 1776 in Périgueux – 17 August 1832) was a French soldier in the armies of Napoleon during the first Empire and Restoration, eventually rising to the rank of brigadier general.


Comberanche-et-Épeluche

Surrounded by the towns of Bourg-du-Bost, Germans, and Petit-Bersac, Comberanche-and-Épeluche is located 37 km northwest of Perigueux.

French News

French News was a monthly newspaper, based in Périgueux, Dordogne, France, published in English and distributed mostly in France.

John I, Count of Armagnac

Lancaster moved to surround Périgueux, but did not have the strength to capture the city and in October he was forced to withdraw with the arrival of a force commanded by Louis of Poitiers, Count of Valentinois.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Périgueux

The Martyrology of Ado gives St. Front as the first Bishop of Périgueux; Saint Peter is said to have sent him to this town with the St. George to whom later traditions assign the foundation of the church of Le Puy.

Thenon

Tertiary sector jobs are largely found in Périgueux 35 km away, or in the slightly larger towns like Montignac on the Vézère River, 14 km to the south east (the nearest town to the Lascaux caves).