Tulle

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Coordinates: 45°16′02″N 1°45′56″E / 45.267336°N 1.765537°E / 45.267336; 1.765537

Commune of Tulle
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Location
Tulle is located in France
Tulle
Administration
Country France
Region Limousin
Department Corrèze
Intercommunality Pays de Tulle
Mayor Bernard Combes (PS)
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 185–460 m (610–1,510 ft)
(avg. 212 m/700 ft)
Land area1 24.44 km2 (9.44 sq mi)
Population2 15,553  (1999)
 - Density 636 /km2 (1,650 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 19272/ 19000
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Tulle (Occitan: Tula) is a commune of France, capital of the Corrèze department in the Limousin region in central France and the episcopal see of the eponymous Roman Catholic diocese, the Bishopric of Tulle. It is the third-largest town in the Limousin region, after Limoges and Brive-la-Gaillarde.

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[edit] History

During the Hundred Years' War Tulle was pillaged by Rodrigo de Villandrando.

[edit] Massacre by the Waffen SS in 1944

Main article: Tulle murders

During the Second World War, the 2nd SS Division Das Reich division of the Waffen SS perpetrated a reprisal massacre of civilians in Tulle, following the killing and brutally maiming of some 40 German soldiers in Tulle on 8 June 1944 by the Maquis Resistance Movement.

On 9 June 1944 a large number of male civilians were rounded up by the SS. Of these, 97 were randomly selected and then hanged from lamp posts and balconies in the town. Additionally, another 321 captives were sent to forced labour camps in Germany.

[edit] Tulle Prison and the Algerian War

In the last stages of the Algerian War and its aftermath, some military officers involved in armed opposition to Charles de Gaulle's evacuation of Algeria were held at Tulle. De Gaulle referred at the time to "Those idiotic generals playing ball in Tulle Prison".[1]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lacouture, Jean. De Gaulle: The Ruler 1945-1970. Alan Sheridan, trans. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991. ISBN 0-393-03084-9 p. 329


[edit] Twin towns

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