usefull link

[pingu]

weather for limoges
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/07434.html


porcelain museum(can really see us all going there )
http://www.a-castle-for-rent.com/limoges/

tourist office
http://www.tourisme.fr/tourist-office/limoges.htm

another touristy site
http://www.french-at-a-touch.com/Fre...nformation.htm


justr some random info
Limoges (lēmôzh') , city (1990 pop. 136,407), capital of Haute-Vienne dept., W central France, on the Vienne River. It is famous for its ceramics industry, which uses the abundant kaolin in the area; the city's porcelain workshops employ more than 10,000 people. The shoe industry is also large. Uranium is mined, and automobiles and electrical equipment are manufactured. An ancient town, Limoges became (12th cent.) the seat of the viscounty of Limoges and (1589) the capital of Limousin prov. It was often visited by war, pestilence, and famine. Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard I of England) was killed in battle near Limoges (1199). In 1370, Edward the Black Prince burned the city and massacred its inhabitants. The famous Limoges enamel industry was fully developed by the 13th cent. and culminated in the work of Léonard Limousin, but it declined when Limoges was once more devastated in the Wars of Religion. Turgot, who was intendant from 1761 to 1764, brought back prosperity by introducing (1771) the china manufactures. Limoges has a cathedral (chiefly 13th–16th cent.), a notable ceramics museum, and an art gallery containing many works by Renoir, who was born there. Limoges Univ. is there.

[fishypaul]

nice one dave

[Norfolkboy]

Nice finds Dave, thanks.

The porcelain museum will top the list of things to do me thinks...

[baitmaster]

you never know dan you might want a sourvineer of your trip


nice info dave

kev

[Drew]

Hi lads,

If you have a few hours to spare, might I suggest that you visit:

ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE.

On their 450 mile drive from the south of France to the Normandy invasion area, the 2nd SS Panzer Division 'Das Reich' (15,000 men aboard 1,400 vehicles, including 209 tanks) under the command of SS General Lammerding, arrived at Limoges, a town famous for its porcelain. In the small town of St. Junien (30 kilometres from Limoges) the 'Der Führer Regiment' was regrouping. Following many encounters with the local maquis in which two German soldiers were killed, a unit of the regiment arrived at ORADOUR (believed to be a hotbed of maquis activity) in a convoy of trucks and half-tracks. At about 2 PM on this Saturday afternoon the 120 man SS unit surrounded the village ordering all inhabitants to parade in the market place for an identity check. Women and children were separated from the menfolk and herded into the local church. The men were herded in groups into six carefully chosen local garages and barns and shot. Their bodies were then covered with straw and set on fire. The 452 women and children in the church were then suffocated by smoke grenades lobbed in through the windows and sharpnel grenades that were thrown down the nave while machine-guns raked the interior. The church was then set on fire.

Incredibly, one woman, Mme Marguerite Rouffanche, escaped by jumping through a window, she was the only witness to the carnage in the church. (Mme Rouffanche died, aged 91, in March, 1988) Unspeakable atrocities were committed throughout the village, but some men managed to escape. The commanding officer of the 1st Battalion of the SS Regiment at ORADOUR was thirty-two year old SS Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann, a survivor of the Russian Front. He was later killed in the Normandy battle area on June 30 when hit in the head by shrapnel. Many members of the "Das Reich" reacted with surprising venom against the officer who ordered the massacre and a court martial was established but Diekmann died before the trial took place. The world heard of this massacre eight years later when some of those responsible were brought to trial. In 1953, a French Military Court at Bordeaux, established that 642 people (245 women, 207 children and 190 men) had perished. Twenty-one other members of his company (including fourteen Frenchmen from Alsace-Lorraine who had been conscripted into the SS) were sentenced to death but later their sentences were commuted to terms of imprisonment. All were released by 1959. SS General Lammerding died peacefully at his home at Bad Toltz in Germany on January 13, 1971, of cancer. A close friend of Diekmann was Major Helmut Kampfe, commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion of the Der Führer Regiment. He was kidnapped and executed by the FTP (Communists) the day before the massacre. His kidnapping was not the only reason for the events at Oradour. Gold, looted by the Nazis, and then stolen by the Maquis, was rumoured to be hidden in the village, why else the indiscriminate destruction?

Today, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane stands in ruins, just as the SS left it.

I can assure you that it is worth a visit.

If you have a look at the web site, there are a few pictures.


http://www.oradour.info/


http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan...es.html#France

Just scroll down.

Cheers

Drew

[baitmaster]

thank you drew
i,ll check that site out i like the the historic stuff so i will ear mark it thankyou

tightlines
kev

[pingu]

excellant info drew
sounds an afternoon out there

did auchwitz last year that was a incedible place that will never forget!!!!!!!!

cheers
dave

[pingu]

just found there website drew
http://www.oradour.info/

[Drew]

Hi Dave,

??? It's been on my posting since 10:23 yesterday???

Cheers

Drew

[pingu]

sorry
i'm a muppet