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12 unusual facts about Tulle


Aimé Michel

He proposed, for example, that there was a line known as “Bavic” (for “Bayonne - Vichy”) where, out of nine UFO observations cited in the press on September 24, 1954, six aligned (Bayonne, Lencouacq, Tulle, Ussel, Cold, Vichy).

Günther-Eberhardt Wisliceny

In 1945 he was handed over by the US Army to the French during investigations into his division's war crimes at Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane, but was released in 1951.

Heinz Lammerding

In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn't extradited by West Germany.

Jacques Pills

Jacques Pills (7 January 1906, Tulle, France — 12 September 1970) was a French singer and actor, born René Jacques Ducos.

Marsh test

Although the Marsh test was efficacious, its first publicly documented use—in fact, the first time evidence from forensic toxicology was ever introduced—was in Tulle, France in 1840 with the celebrated LaFarge poisoning case.

Peggy Adam

She created posters for the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Tulle's theater, and cartoons for French national newspapers and magazines such as Le Monde, Libération, Femme Actuelle, Femina, Bang.

Recollects

It was observed by communities of friars in France in Tulle in 1585, at Nevers in 1592, at Limoges in 1596 and in Paris in 1603.

Théâtre des Sept Collines

The Théâtre des Sept Collines (Theater of the Seven Hills) or Théatre de Tulle is the municipal theater in the city of Tulle, Corrèze, France.

Tulle Cathedral

Tulle Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Tulle) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the town of Tulle, France.

It is the seat of the Bishopric of Tulle, created in 1317 in the aftermath of the suppression of the Albigensians.

Tulle murders

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.

After the Normandy Landings, the 2nd Panzer Division received orders to position themselves in the region between Tulle and Limoges to suppress the Maquis, who, in coordination with the Allied invasion, were intensifying their insurgency against German interests and forces.


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Arnaut de Tintinhac

Arnaut de Tintinhac or Tintignac was a 12th-century Gascon nobleman and troubadour from Naves, near Tulle.

Bobbinet

Bobbinet or genuine tulle is a specific type of tulle netting which has been made in the United Kingdom since the invention of the bobbinet machine in 1806 by John Heathcoat.

Clément Cycles

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.

PO Corrèze

From Tulle, north to Uzerche and a connection with the standard gauge PO (later SNCF) lines,

Rudolf Stingel

For his works on paper Stingel is known for a technique of applying oil paint and/or enamel onto canvas or paper through a tulle screen.

Saint Calminius

Saint Calminius, also known as Saint Calmin, founded three French abbeys in the 6th or 7th centuries AD: Mozac Abbey, in Puy-de-Dôme; Laguenne Abbey (near Tulle, Corrèze) and the abbey of Monastier-Saint-Chaffre.