Limoges, chief town in the dep. of Haute-Vienne, on the Vienne River, 250 m. S. of Paris; has a Gothic cathedral; is one of the chief manufacturing towns of France. Its porcelain and woollen cloths are widely famed; it has a large transit trade; it gives name to a fine kind of surface enamel, which was brought to perfection there.
Population (circa 1900) given as 68,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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