Saint-Léonard-de-Purse is part of the Country of Art and History Mountains and Dams and the "Most Beaux Détours de France" network. It owes its existence to Leonardo, friend of Clovis and disciple of Bishop Rémi, who establishes its hermitage in the forest of Pauvain and whose tomb spawned numerous pilgrimages. The historic heart of the city, on the plateau between the valleys of Vienna and the late, has kept the medieval route of its streets. A farm and a craftsman, its houses testify to its prosperity: active and commercial city where industrial and craft activities, such as leather and porcelain work, have continued. It counts many farms of the famous limousine cattle. Saint-Léonard-de-Purse is today a culturally dynamic city, as evidenced by museums, exhibitions, concerts, demonstrations and preserves its living traditions (quasimodo, quintaine, the Saint Martial in early July, expositions…). Saint-Léonard is the homeland of the famous physicist and chemist Gay-Lussac (home and bust place place Gay-Lussac) and Denis Dussoubs, a republican lawyer who died on the barricades during the coup d'état in 1851. Celebrities like the painter Sanfourche, sculptor Robert Aupetit and the cyclist Raymond Poulidor have chosen to live there, the writer and philosopher Gilles Deleuze is buried there.

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