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==People== People who were born or have significantly lived in Corrèze include: * [[Étienne Baluze]] (1630–1718), scholar and personal librarian of [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert|Colbert]] * [[Guillaume Marie Anne Brune]] (1763–1815), [[marshal of France]], marshal of the Empire and godfather of author [[Alexandre Dumas]] * [[Jean Cazeneuve]] (1915–2005), philosopher and sociologist, president of the [[ORTF]] and of [[TF1]] * [[Jacques Chirac]] (1932–2019), deputy to the [[Assemblée Nationale]] for Corrèze (1967–1995), President of the departement's [[general councils (France)|General Council]] (1970–1979), [[List of Prime Ministers of France|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]] * [[Pope Clement VI]] (1291–1352), 198th [[pope]], born Pierre Roger in [[Rosiers-d'Égletons]] * 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. * [[Marcel Conche]] (1922– ), philosopher * [[Bernart de Ventadorn|Bernard de Ventadour]] (1135–1195), a famous [[troubadour]] born at the [[Château de Ventadour|castle of Ventadour]] * [[Jacques Delors]] (1925– ), economist and politician, 8th [[President of the European Commission]] (1985–1994), father of socialist leader [[Martine Aubry]] * [[Thomas Domingo]] (1985– ), [[France national rugby union team|French international]] [[rugby union]] player * [[Guillaume Dubois]] (1656–1723), [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] and statesman, [[List of Prime Ministers of France|Prime Minister of France]] during the [[Régence]] * [[Léon Eyrolles]] (1861–1945), entrepreneur and politician * [[David Feuerwerker]] (1912–1980), Rabbi and resistance member * [[Antoinette Feuerwerker]] (1912–2003), lawyer and resistance member * [[Eugène Freyssinet]] (1879–1962), [[structural engineer|structural]] and [[civil engineer]], major pioneer of [[prestressed concrete]] * [[Pope Gregory XI]] (1329–1378), 201st pope and last French pope, born Pierre Roger de Beaufort in Rosiers-d'Egletons * [[Cédric Heymans]] (1978– ), [[France national rugby union team|French international]] [[rugby union]] player * [[François Hollande]] (1954– ), deputy for Corrèze (1988–1993 and 1997–2012), mayor of [[Tulle]] (2001–2008), President of the department's General Council (2008–2012), leader of the [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] (1997–2008), 24th [[President of the French Republic]] (2012–2017) * The [[House of La Tour d'Auvergne]], viscounts of [[Turenne, Corrèze|Turenne]] * The [[Duke of Noailles|House of Noailles]], dukes of [[Noailles, Corrèze|Noailles]] and [[Ayen]], which provided three [[Marshal of France|marshals of France]], one [[admiral of France]] and one [[archbishop of Paris]] * [[Pope Innocent VI]] (1295–1362), 199th pope, born Etienne Aubert in [[Beyssac]] * [[Laurent Koscielny]] (1985– ), [[association football|footballer]] who plays for [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] in the [[Premier League]] * [[Pierre André Latreille|Pierre-André Latreille]] (1762–1833), [[zoology|zoologist]] and [[entomology|entomologist]] * [[André Malraux]] (1901–1976), writer, adventurer and statesman, member of the [[Maquis du Limousin|French Resistance in Corrèze]] during the [[Second World War]] * [[Max Mamers]] (1943), born in Objat, racing driver, two-time champion of France of rallycross, organizer of the [[Andros]] Trophy and the Paris-Corrèze * [[Jean-Antoine Marbot]] (1754–1800), [[Général|general]] of the [[French Army]] and politician, deputy of Correze in the [[Legislative Assembly (France)|Legislative Assembly]], deputy of Corrèze in the [[Council of the Ancients]], twice elected [[Council of Ancients#Presidents of the Council of Ancients|President of the Council of the Ancients]] * [[Adolphe Marbot|Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot]] (1781–1844), [[Général|general]] of the [[French Army]] * [[Marcellin Marbot|Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcelin Marbot]] (1782–1854), [[Général|general]] of the [[French Army]], author of the famous ''Memoirs of General Marbot'' * [[Edmond Michelet]] (1899–1970), politician and statesman, who did the first act of [[French Resistance|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]] * [[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) * [[Pierre Neuville]] (1922– ), author of "Les combats de ma vie" SDE (2013). * [[Nam Phương|Marie-Thérèse Nguyễn Hữu Thị Lan]] (1914–1963), the last empress consort of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]] in [[Vietnam]] * [[Robert Nivelle]] (1856–1924), [[Général|general]], commander-in-chief of the [[French Army|French armies]] on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in 1917 * [[Valérie Pécresse]] (1967– ), politician, former Minister of Higher Education and Research (2007–2011), former [[List of Budget Ministers of France|Minister of the Budget]] and Government's Spokeswoman (2011–2012) * [[Edmond Perrier]] (1844–1921), anatomist and zoologist * [[Henri Queuille]] (1884–1970), mayor of [[Neuvic, Corrèze|Neuvic]] (1912–1965), deputy for Corrèze (1914–1935 and 1946–1958), [[Senate of France|senator]] for Corrèze (1935–1941) who refused to vote full powers to Pétain in 1940, three times [[List of Prime Ministers of France|Prime Minister of France]] during the [[French Fourth Republic|Fourth Republic]] * [[Eric Rohmer]] (1920–2010), film director * [[Patrick Sébastien]] (1953– ), born in Brive-la-Gaillarde, man of television, singer * [[René Teulade]] (1931–2014), member of the Senate * [[Denis Tillinac]] (1947– ), author and journalist * [[Pierre Tornade]] (1930–2012), actor, born in Bort-les-Orgues * [[Jean Baptiste Treilhard|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 of France|King]] [[Louis XVI]], member of the [[French Directory|Directory]] and one of the redactors of the [[Napoleonic code]]s; he is buried in the [[Panthéon, Paris|Panthéon]] * [[Marius Vazeilles]] (1881–1973), politician and archeologist * [[Varg Vikernes]] (1973– ), Norwegian musician and writer * [[Cédric Villani]] (1973– ), mathematician, [[Fields Medalist]] in 2010 * [[Pierre Villepreux]] (1943– ), rugby player * [[Rose Warfman]] (1916–2016 ), resistance member * [[Dimitri Yachvili]] (1980– ), [[France national rugby union team|French international]] [[rugby union]] player
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