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Brive, Tulle and Ussel in Correze. In the 17th century Limousin, thus constituted, had become no more than a small gouvernement. Limousin takes its name from the Lemovices, a Gallic tribe whose county was included by See also:

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus in the province of Aquitaiic Magna. Politically its See also:

HISTORY

history has little of See also:

SEPARATE

separate See also:

INTEREST

interest; it shared in See also:

general the vicissitudes of See also:

AQUITAINE

Aquitaine, whose See also:

dukes from 918 onwards were its over-lords at least till 1264, after which it was sometimes under them, sometimes under the See also:

COUNTS

counts of See also:

POITIERS

Poitiers, until the See also:

French See also:

KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings succeeded in asserting their See also:

DIRECT

direct over-lordship. It was, however, until the 14th century, the centre of a See also:

CIVILIZATION

civilization of which the enamelling See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry (see See also:

ENAMEL (formerly " amel," derived through the Fr. amail, emmll, esmail, from a Latin word smaltum, first found in a 9th-century life of Leo IV.)

ENAMEL) was only one expression. The Limousin See also:

DIALECT (from Gr. Sia stcror, conversation, manner of speaking, &aXeyec6at, to converse)

dialect, now a See also:

mere See also:

PATOIS

patois, was regarded by the troubadours as the purest form of Provencal. See A. Lerceux, Geographie et histoire du Limousin (Limoges, 1892).

Detailed bibliography in See also:

Chevalier, Repertoire See also:

des See also:

SOURCES

sources. Topo-bibliogr. (See also:

MONTBELIARD

Montbeliard, 1902), t. ii. s.v.

End of Article: LIMOUSIN (Lat. Pagus Lemovicinus, ager Lemovicensis, regio Lemovicum, Lemozinum, Limosinium, &c.)

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