Tulle

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Tulle
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Coat of arms of Tulle
Tulle is located in France
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Tulle
Administration
Country France
Region Limousin
Department Corrèze
Arrondissement Tulle
Intercommunality Tulle et Cœur de Corrèze
Mayor Bernard Combes
(2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation 185–460 m (607–1,510 ft)
Land area1 24.44 km2 (9.44 sq mi)
Population2 15,681  (2008)
 - Density 642 /km2 (1,660 /sq mi)
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 without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 45°16′02″N 1°45′56″E / 45.2673°N 1.7655°E / 45.2673; 1.7655

Tulle (Occitan: Tula) is a commune and capital of the Corrèze department in the Limousin region in central France. It is also the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese 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 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] Population

Historical population of Tulle
Year 1793 1800 1806 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
Population 9662 9362 9153 8097 8689 9700 9669 10,769 11,895
Year 1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886
Population 11,653 12,410 12,606 13,680 15,342 16,196 16,277
Year 1891 1896 1901 1906 1911 1921 1926
Population 18,964 17,374 17,412 17,245 15,942 13,732 14,349
Year 1931 1936 1946 1954 1962 1968 1975
Population 15,021 15,617 18,202 19,372 19,084 20,016 20,100
Year 1982 1990 1999 2008
Population 18,880 17,164 15,496 15,681

[edit] Twin towns

Tulle is twinned with:

[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

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