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Discover limoge, the porcelain city
 Limoges was founded in -12 AV Jesus Christ by the Romans. She was called then Augustoritum. Its current name comes from local Gallic people: lemovices. Limoges was a very industrial city, with factories of shoes, gloves. It was also the cradle of the porcelain what confers to him still today a world reputation in this field. The great names of the porcelain have their sign in Limoges. That is in large Aquitaine, during the industrial revolution or nearer during the war, Limoges was always a dynamic, independent city to see “rebel even a little”. It is in Limoges that was to create CGT. Resistance and the maquis were also very active during the second world war.
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