Limoges was so far from the WWI front line that when the Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces wanted to get rid of useless senior staff, he'd position them there. The town name became synonymous with dismissal - in English you fire someone, in French you limoge them.
I get that prices are high and that going to high school in France sucks in many areas, but to burn down the historic town hall seems over the top to me. (Doesn't help that earlier in some cases the gendarme/police violently tried to suppress the protests in other areas of France.) I suppose France has a long, and perhaps self-defeating history of conflict with their government, to say the least. Yet another chapter...
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[ 0.27 ms ] story [ 3.0 ms ] threadLimoges was so far from the WWI front line that when the Commander-in-Chief of the French Forces wanted to get rid of useless senior staff, he'd position them there. The town name became synonymous with dismissal - in English you fire someone, in French you limoge them.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limoger