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Although it is by far the biggest commune in Corrèze, the capital isTulle. In French popular culture, the town is associated with a song byGeorges Brassens.
Even though the inhabitants settled around the 1st century, the city only started to grow much later. From around the 5th century onwards, the original city began to develop around a church dedicated to Saint-Martin-l'Espagnol. During the 12th century walls were built around the city and during theHundred Years' War a second wall was built. These fortifications no longer exist and have been replaced by boulevards. TheHôtel de Ville was commissioned as the Collège des Doctrinaires (College of Doctrinaires) and completed in 1671.[4]
The commune was named "Brive" until 1919, when it was renamed "Brive-la-Gaillarde". The word "Gaillarde" (still used in currentFrench) probably stands for bravery or strength in the city's name, but it can also refer to the city's walls. Brive now extends outside of its original boundaries intoMalemort andUssac.[citation needed]
DuringWorld War II, Brive-la-Gaillarde was a regional capital of the Resistance, acting as a seat of several clandestine information networks and several of the principal resistance movements, including theArmée secrète (or "Secret Army") and theMouvements Unis de la Résistance (or "United Movements of the Resistance").[citation needed]
The medieval centre is mainly a commercial district with retail shops and variouscafés. It is also the location of the city hall, the main police station, and the Labenche museum. One notable landmark outside the inner city is thePont Cardinal, a bridge which used to be a crossing point for travelers fromParis toToulouse.[citation needed]
Alceste De Ambris (born 15 September 1874 to Licciana Nardi, and died December 9, 1934, in Brive-la-Gaillard), an Italian politician and syndicalist
Nicolas Ernault des Bruslys, born on 7 August 1757 in Brive-la-Gaillarde and died on 25 September 1809 in Reunion, is a French general of the Revolution and the Empire.
David Feuerwerker (1912–1980) rabbi and professor of French Jewish history (Geneva, 2 October 1912 – Montreal, 20 June 1980).
Antoinette Feuerwerker (1912–2003) Belgian lawyer and educator, wife of David Feuerwerker; Member of the Combat movement in Limousin alongside Edmond Michelet.
Edmond Michelet (1899–1970), politician, leader of the Movement Combat Limousin; arrested by theGestapo in Brive in February 1943; died in the village of Marcillac, the town of Brive.
Louis Néel (1904–2000), physicist, Nobel Prize 1970, died in Brive
Jean-Baptiste Treilhard (born 3 January 1742 in Brive-la-Gaillarde – died December 1810 inParis) was a French jurist and politician at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.
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