![]() ![]() After a vain attempt at Végennes, he turned to Vellinus. In the midst of the War of succession at the head of Aquitaine, around 855, Rodolphe de Turenne, Archbishop of Bourges, rallied to the legitimate cause embodied by Charles the Bald, was committed to establishing a monastic foundation on his family lands. History Middle ages Chapelle des pénitents (left) in the village of Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne across the river from Altillac. The commune is limited on its entire eastern border by the Dordogne, and watered to the north by its tributary the Ménoire. Brive-la-Gaillarde is 38 km away and Collonges-la-Rouge is 20 km to the northwest. It is located on the D940 road on the banks of the Dordogne river, south of the Limousin. The inhabitants of Beaulieu are called by varies names: Beaulieusard, Beaulieurois, Bellilocien, Bellieurain, Bellilocois, Belliloquois, Belliloqueteux, Belliquière, Berlugan, Beloudonien.īeaulieu is in the south of the Corrèze department. ![]() Toponymy īeaulieu comes from the Latin "bellus locus", "lieu beau", a nice place to live. Geography One of the arms of the Dordogne river crossing the village. On 1 January 2019, the former commune Brivezac was merged into Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne. Beaulieu is a medieval city, originally dominated by its great abbey of St Pierre, of which only the abbey church remains. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.īeaulieu-sur-Dordogne ( French pronunciation:, literally Beaulieu on Dordogne Occitan: Belluec) is a commune in the Corrèze department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, central France. ![]()
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