with 80% bovine cattle and some 10% other animals. the fruit and vegetable field crops made up little more than 5% of the total agriculture area. Personalities Gaucelm Faidit (Around 1150- to 1205) – one of history's most prolific troubadours, born in Uzerche. François de Grenaille (1616–1680) – writer born in Uzerche. Guillaume Grivel (1735–1810) – writer and lawyer born in Uzerche. Alexis Boyer (1737–1833) – Doctor and anatomist born in Uzerche. Jean Baptiste Léonard Durand (1742–1812) – Administrator and ex-Director of the Compagnie du Sénégal, born in Uzerche. Félicité de Genlis (1746–1830) – Woman of letters, she ran a woman's hostel in Uzerche from 1782. The action in her novel Olympe et Théophile takes place in the Chateau de Puy-Grolier where she lived. Henri Joseph Brugère (1841–1918) – General born in Uzerche. Louis Rollin (1879–1952) – Politician born in Uzerche. Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) – Philosopher, novelist, épistolière, mémorialiste and essayist. During her youth she spent her summer holidays not far from Uzerche at Saint-Ybard, in Merignac a village started by her great-grandfather Ernest de Beauvoir about 1880. The land had been bought by her great-grandmother Narcisse Bertrand de Beauvoir at the start of the 19th century. It is possible to see the influence of this happy period of her life with the companionship of her sister Hélène in her book Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée. On May 24, 2008, the town celebrated the centenary of the writer's birth. Henri Cueco (1929–2017) – painter, artist and writer born in Uzerche. Patrick Dumas (1953) – cartoonist, born in Uzerche. See also Communes of the Corrèze department References Gallery External links Official web site Communes of Corrèze Limousin Corrèze communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia