Maquis du Limousin

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The maquis du Limousin was one of the largest Maquis groups of French resistance fighters.

The region of Limousin was profoundly affected by the Tulle murders of June 9, 1944 which followed the Normandy landings and of the movement of the 2nd SS Division Das Reich into Corrèze and Haute-Vienne. Equally, the Limousine maquis was troubled by continuing antagonisms between the Armée secrète and the Francs-tireurs et partisans concerning operational methods (particularly at Tulle and Guéret), how local powers should be distributed after the liberation in August 1944, as well as the degree to which "cleansing" (of collaborators) from the political system should take place.

Led by Gontran Royer for the Mouvements unis de la Résistance, the best known figures in the Maquis du Limousin were Edmond Michelet, André Malraux, Georges Guingouin, followed by Roger Lescure, Louis Lemoigne, René Vaujour and Marius Guedin. Jacques Renouvin, André Delon, Martial Brigouleix, Raymond Farro and Florentin Gourmelen, also prominent maquisards in Limousin, were killed during the war.

The Maquis du Limousin was led first from Brive-la-Gaillarde, then from Limoges. The maquis was split into several main sectors:

[edit] Sources (French)

  • Beau (Georges), Gaubusseau (Léopold), Les SS en Limousin, Quercy et Périgord, Paris, Presses de la Cité, 1966.
  • Maquis de Corrèze, ouvrage collectif, 5e édition, Naves, Imprimerie du Corrézien, 1995, 797 p.
  • Plas (Pascal, dir.), Genèse et développement de la Résistance en R5, 1940-1943, Actes des colloques de Brive-la-Gaillarde (September 1998) et de Soudaine-Lavinadière (September 2001), Treignac, éditions Les Monédières; Brive-la-Gaillarde, Centre Edmond Michelet, 2003, 339 p.

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