Palate-on-Vienna

Palate-on-Vienna is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna, the area the Limousin and the Agglomération of Limoges.

The name Occitan of the commune is Lu Palaiç . The inhabitants are called Palaisiens .

Geography

Palate-on-Vienna is located at the east of the Agglomération of Limoges, in the valley of the Vienna. Altitude varies between 230 and 365 meters.

Localities and variations

Bournazeau
Châtenet
Puy Snows
Red Maison
Ventenat

Communes bordering

History

The city of Palate-on-Vienna draws its name from the Palate of Jocondiac.

In the night from May 8th to 9th 1943, Georges Guingouin succeeds, with the danger of its life, to make jump the factory of rubber, very important for the saving in German war. Indeed there existed in France only 2 rubber factories, one in Palate-on-Vienna the other with Colombes. By three times, April 6th, 29th and 30th 1943, RAF had bombarded the factory of Colombes. Alas, the population had been seriously reached and the marshal Pétain, with the radio, had skilfully exploited this situation: “they are still deaths, casualties, destroyed hearths”. Conscious of this disastrous repercussion, the allied High-State-Major had asked for the movement “Combat” to destroy by the explosive the factory of the Palate, but that had not been possible. Informed, Georges Guingouin, in spite of the difficulties of displacement since its base in forest of Châteauneuf, distant on 45 km, decided to make the operation. Accompanied by Rene Duval which had gone voluntary, in the night of May 9th, 1943, it made jump two boilers. The stop of this factory for 5 months will make lose with the Germans 1.500 tons of rubber. But to the return in their camp the two men of the maquis will fall into a Embuscade from the gendarmerie and it will be necessary little of them that they do not lose the life there.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

Twinnings

See too

Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

Official site of the city of Palate-on-Vienna
Palate-on-Vienna on the site of the national geographical Institute
Palate-on-Vienna on the site of INSEE
Palate-on-Vienna on the site of Quid
Localization of Palate-on-Vienna on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Palate-on-Vienna on Mapquest

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