^1 French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries and lakes, ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2
In 2019, Corrèze had a population of 240,073,[3] divided among 279 communes. Its inhabitants are called Corréziens (masculine) and Corréziennes (feminine). Its INSEE and postal code is 19.
The department makes up of most of Lower Limousin and owes its name to the Corrèze river whose entire course flows through the centre, and passes through the two main cities, Tulle and Brive. Tulle is the prefecture of Corrèze and Brive-la-Gaillarde the largest city.
Location
Since 2015, the department is administrated by the Nouvelle-Aquitaineregion. To the north, it borders the departments of Haute-Vienne and the Creuse, to the east, the departments of Puy-de-Dôme and Cantal, to the south of that of the Lot and, finally, to the west of that of the Dordogne.
Geology and relief
Located west of the Massif Central, it consists of three zones: the Mountains (Montagne), the plateaus and the Brive Basin.
The mountains' peak at 977 m at Mount Bessou. Its Rhenohercynian Zone formation is quite eroded.
The plateaus have deep valleys that head towards the Dordogne river, such as at the Gimel waterfalls.
The department is crossed by several rivers, such as Vézère, Corrèze or the Dordogne.
Climate
The department transitions between the Aquitaine and the Massif Central, the Corrèze department sees its elevation gradually rise from the basin of Brive to the Plateau de Millevaches, watershed of the Atlantic facade. This relief explains the wide variety of climates of Corrèze.
Principal towns
The most populous commune is Brive-la-Gaillarde; the prefecture Tulle is the second-most populous. As of 2019, there are 7 communes with more than 4,000 inhabitants:[3]
Corrèze is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It includes part of the former province of Limousin (the Bas-Limousin).
Within Corrèze the nineteenth-century railway planners, influenced in part by the department's topography, endowed Brive-la-Gaillarde with good connections and a major junction from which railway lines fanned out in six different directions. The railways arrived in 1860, at an opportune moment, directly after phylloxera had destroyed the local wine industry. The new railways enabled the farms in the area surrounding Brive to specialise in fruits and vegetables which they could now transport rapidly to the larger population centres of central and southern France. Locally, the new agriculture triggered the development, in the Brive basin, of related businesses and industries such as the manufacture of jams and liquors, as well as timber/paper-based packaging businesses.
Demographics
The 1851 census recorded a population of 320,866: this remained relatively constant for the rest of the nineteenth century. During the twentieth century, however, Corrèze shared the experience of many of the country's rural departments as the population fell steadily.
The President of the General Council was François Hollande of the Socialist Party until 2012 when he was elected President of the Republic. Jacques Chirac also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly from here for many years.
In 1879 Adolphe Clément-Bayard built an iron smelter in Tulle to supply his Parisian cycle manufacturing business, but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable.
Richard Millet (1953— ), novelist and essayist, born in Viam.
Marie-Anne Montchamp (1957– ), politician, former Secretary of State for Solidarities and Social Cohesion (2010–2012)
Valérie Pécresse (1967– ), politician, former Minister of Higher Education and Research (2007–2011), former Minister of the Budget and Government's Spokeswoman (2011–2012)
^"Répertoire national des élus: les conseillers départementaux". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 4 May 2022.
^"Évolution et structure de la population en 2016". INSEE.
^Nationale, Assemblée. "Assemblée nationale ~ Les députés, le vote de la loi, le Parlement français". Assemblée nationale.
External links
(in French) Prefecture website
(in French) Departmental Council website
lacorreze.com a lot of photos
January 26, 2023
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For other uses see Correze disambiguation Correze French pronunciation kɔʁɛz listen Occitan Corresa is a departement in France named after the river Correze which runs through it Although its prefecture is Tulle its most populated city is Brive la Gaillarde Correze is located in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region on the border with Occitania and Auvergne Rhone Alpes Correze Corresa Occitan Department of FrancePrefecture building in TulleFlagCoat of armsLocation of Correze in FranceCoordinates 45 20 N 1 50 E 45 333 N 1 833 E 45 333 1 833 Coordinates 45 20 N 1 50 E 45 333 N 1 833 E 45 333 1 833CountryFranceRegionNouvelle AquitainePrefectureTulleSubprefecturesBrive la GaillardeUsselGovernment President of the Departmental CouncilPascal Coste 1 LR Area1 Total5 857 km2 2 261 sq mi Population Jan 2019 2 Total240 073 Rank84th Density41 km2 110 sq mi Time zoneUTC 1 CET Summer DST UTC 2 CEST Department number19Largest cityBrive la GaillardeArrondissements3Cantons19Communes279 1 French Land Register data which exclude estuaries and lakes ponds and glaciers larger than 1 km2In 2019 Correze had a population of 240 073 3 divided among 279 communes Its inhabitants are called Correziens masculine and Correziennes feminine Its INSEE and postal code is 19 Contents 1 Geography 1 1 Location 1 2 Geology and relief 1 3 Hydrography 1 4 Climate 1 5 Principal towns 2 History 3 Demographics 4 Politics 4 1 Current National Assembly Representatives 5 Tourism 6 People 7 See also 8 References 9 External linksGeography EditThe department makes up of most of Lower Limousin and owes its name to the Correze river whose entire course flows through the centre and passes through the two main cities Tulle and Brive Tulle is the prefecture of Correze and Brive la Gaillarde the largest city Location Edit Since 2015 the department is administrated by the Nouvelle Aquitaine region To the north it borders the departments of Haute Vienne and the Creuse to the east the departments of Puy de Dome and Cantal to the south of that of the Lot and finally to the west of that of the Dordogne Geology and relief Edit Located west of the Massif Central it consists of three zones the Mountains Montagne the plateaus and the Brive Basin The mountains peak at 977 m at Mount Bessou Its Rhenohercynian Zone formation is quite eroded The plateaus have deep valleys that head towards the Dordogne river such as at the Gimel waterfalls South west of Correze the Brive sedimentary basin enjoys a more favourable climate There are sandstone hills like Collonges la Rouge Hydrography Edit The department is crossed by several rivers such as Vezere Correze or the Dordogne Climate Edit The department transitions between the Aquitaine and the Massif Central the Correze department sees its elevation gradually rise from the basin of Brive to the Plateau de Millevaches watershed of the Atlantic facade This relief explains the wide variety of climates of Correze Principal towns Edit The most populous commune is Brive la Gaillarde the prefecture Tulle is the second most populous As of 2019 there are 7 communes with more than 4 000 inhabitants 3 Commune Population 2019 Brive la Gaillarde 46 330Tulle 14 812Ussel 9 358Malemort 7 984Saint Pantaleon de Larche 4 751Egletons 4 295Ussac 4 215History EditCorreze is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 It includes part of the former province of Limousin the Bas Limousin Within Correze the nineteenth century railway planners influenced in part by the department s topography endowed Brive la Gaillarde with good connections and a major junction from which railway lines fanned out in six different directions The railways arrived in 1860 at an opportune moment directly after phylloxera had destroyed the local wine industry The new railways enabled the farms in the area surrounding Brive to specialise in fruits and vegetables which they could now transport rapidly to the larger population centres of central and southern France Locally the new agriculture triggered the development in the Brive basin of related businesses and industries such as the manufacture of jams and liquors as well as timber paper based packaging businesses Demographics EditThe 1851 census recorded a population of 320 866 this remained relatively constant for the rest of the nineteenth century During the twentieth century however Correze shared the experience of many of the country s rural departments as the population fell steadily Historical populationYearPop p a 1791269 767 1801243 654 1 01 1806254 233 0 85 1821273 418 0 49 1831294 834 0 76 1841306 480 0 39 1851320 864 0 46 1861310 118 0 34 1872302 746 0 22 1881317 066 0 51 1891328 151 0 34 1901318 422 0 30 1911309 673 0 28 1921273 808 1 22 YearPop p a 1931264 129 0 36 1936262 743 0 11 1946254 574 0 32 1954242 798 0 59 1962237 926 0 25 1968237 858 0 00 1975240 363 0 15 1982241 448 0 06 1990237 908 0 18 1999232 576 0 25 2006240 363 0 47 2011242 454 0 17 2016241 535 0 08 Sources 4 5 Politics EditThe President of the General Council was Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party until 2012 when he was elected President of the Republic Jacques Chirac also served as a Deputy of the National Assembly from here for many years Party seatsUnion for a Popular Movement 18 Socialist Party 16 French Communist Party 2 Miscellaneous Left 1Current National Assembly Representatives Edit Constituency Member 6 PartyCorreze s 1st constituency Christophe Jerretie La Republique En Marche Correze s 2nd constituency Frederique Meunier The RepublicansTourism Edit Uzerche Tulle Beaulieu sur Dordogne Collonges la Rouge ArgentatPeople EditPeople who were born or have significantly lived in Correze include The House of Noailles dukes of Noailles and Ayen which provided three marshals of France one admiral of France and one archbishop of Paris The House of La Tour d Auvergne viscounts of Turenne Bernard de Ventadour 1135 1195 a famous troubadour born at the castle of Ventadour Pope Clement VI 1291 1352 198th pope born Pierre Roger in Rosiers d Egletons Pope Innocent VI 1295 1362 199th pope born Etienne Aubert in Beyssac Pope Gregory XI 1329 1378 201st pope and last French pope born Pierre Roger de Beaufort in Rosiers d Egletons Etienne Baluze 1630 1718 scholar and personal librarian of Colbert Guillaume Dubois 1656 1723 cardinal and statesman Prime Minister of France during the Regence Jean Baptiste Treilhard 1742 1810 political figure of the French Revolution member of Committee of Public Safety president of the Convention that judged and sentenced to death King Louis XVI member of the Directory and one of the redactors of the Napoleonic codes he is buried in the Pantheon Jean Antoine Marbot 1754 1800 general of the French Army and politician deputy of Correze in the Legislative Assembly deputy of Correze in the Council of the Ancients twice elected President of the Council of the Ancients Pierre Andre Latreille 1762 1833 zoologist and entomologist Guillaume Marie Anne Brune 1763 1815 marshal of France marshal of the Empire and godfather of author Alexandre Dumas Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot 1781 1844 general of the French Army Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot 1782 1854 general of the French Army author of the famous Memoirs of General Marbot Edmond Perrier 1844 1921 anatomist and zoologist Robert Nivelle 1856 1924 general commander in chief of the French armies on the Western Front in 1917 Leon Eyrolles 1861 1945 entrepreneur and politician Eugene Freyssinet 1879 1962 structural and civil engineer major pioneer of prestressed concrete In 1879 Adolphe Clement Bayard built an iron smelter in Tulle to supply his Parisian cycle manufacturing business but he did not have sufficient finance to make it viable Marius Vazeilles 1881 1973 politician and archeologist Henri Queuille 1884 1970 mayor of Neuvic 1912 1965 deputy for Correze 1914 1935 and 1946 1958 senator for Correze 1935 1941 who refused to vote full powers to Petain in 1940 three times Prime Minister of France during the Fourth Republic Edmond Michelet 1899 1970 politician and statesman who did the first act of resistance of World War II in France by distributing tracts calling to continue the war in all Brive la Gaillarde s mailboxes on 17 June 1940 one day before Charles de Gaulle s Appeal of 18 June Antoinette Feuerwerker 1912 2003 lawyer and resistance member David Feuerwerker 1912 1980 Rabbi and resistance member Marie Therese Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan 1914 1963 the last empress consort of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam Jean Cazeneuve 1915 2005 philosopher and sociologist president of the ORTF and of TF1 Pierre Neuville 1922 author of Les combats de ma vie SDE 2013 Jacques Delors 1925 economist and politician 8th President of the European Commission 1985 1994 father of socialist leader Martine Aubry Andre Malraux 1901 1976 writer adventurer and statesman member of the French Resistance in Correze during the Second World War Jacques Chirac 1932 2019 deputy to the Assemblee Nationale for Correze 1967 1995 President of the departement s General Council 1970 1979 Prime Minister of France 1974 1976 and 1986 1988 Mayor of Paris 1977 1995 and 22nd President of the French Republic 1995 2007 Bernadette Chirac 1933 member of the departement s General Council and aide to the mayor of Sarran Francois Hollande 1954 deputy for Correze 1988 1993 and 1997 2012 mayor of Tulle 2001 2008 President of the department s General Council 2008 2012 leader of the Socialist Party 1997 2008 24th President of the French Republic 2012 2017 Pierre Tornade 1930 2012 actor born in Bort les Orgues Rose Warfman 1916 2016 resistance member Eric Rohmer 1920 2010 film director Marcel Conche 1922 philosopher Max Mamers 1943 born in Objat racing driver two times champion of France of rallycross organizer of the Andros Trophy and the Paris Correze Patrick Sebastien 1953 born in Brive la Gaillarde a man of television singer Pierre Villepreux 1943 rugby player Denis Tillinac 1947 author and journalist Richard Millet 1953 novelist and essayist born in Viam Marie Anne Montchamp 1957 politician former Secretary of State for Solidarities and Social Cohesion 2010 2012 Valerie Pecresse 1967 politician former Minister of Higher Education and Research 2007 2011 former Minister of the Budget and Government s Spokeswoman 2011 2012 Rene Teulade 1931 2014 member of the Senate Cedric Villani 1973 mathematician Fields Medalist in 2010 Cedric Heymans 1978 French international rugby union player Dimitri Yachvili 1980 French international rugby union player Laurent Koscielny 1985 footballer who plays for Arsenal in the Premier League Thomas Domingo 1985 French international rugby union player Varg Vikernes 1973 Norwegian musician and writerSee also EditCantons of the Correze department Communes of the Correze department Arrondissements of the Correze departmentReferences Edit Repertoire national des elus les conseillers departementaux data gouv fr Plateforme ouverte des donnees publiques francaises in French 4 May 2022 Telechargement du fichier d ensemble des populations legales en 2019 The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies 29 December 2021 a b Populations legales 2019 19 Correze INSEE Historique de la Correze Le SPLAF Evolution et structure de la population en 2016 INSEE Nationale Assemblee Assemblee nationale Les deputes le vote de la loi le Parlement francais Assemblee nationale External links Edit in French Prefecture website in French Departmental Council website lacorreze com a lot of photos Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Correze amp oldid 1133401239, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
