BRIVE or BRIVES-LA-GAILLARDE, a town of France, capital of an arrondissement, department of Correze, 62m. S.S.E. of Limoges on the main line of the Orleans railway from Paris to Montauban. Pop. (1931) 22,441. It lies on the left bank of the Correze in a fertile plain where important roads and rail ways meet, and where the high Plateau Central grades down to the south-western plain. Rock caves give local evidence of man in early prehistoric times and great stone monuments show later occupation. Known to the Romans as Briva Curretiae (bridge of the Correze), in the middle ages it was the capital of lower Limousin, and St. Anthony of Padua founded a Franciscan mon astery here in 1226. The enceinte which formerly surrounded the town has been replaced by boulevards. Outside the boulevards lie the modern quarters. A fine bridge leads over the Correze to suburbs on its right bank. The church of St. Martin in the heart of the old town is a building of the 12th century in the Roman esque style of Limousin, with three narrow naves of almost equal height. The ecclesiastical seminary occupies a graceful mansion of the 16th century, with movable façade, staircase and fireplaces. Brive's position makes it a market of importance with large trade in the early vegetables, nuts and fruit of the Correze valley, and in live stock, liqueurs and truffles. Table delicacies, paper, wooden shoes, hats, candles, and earthenware are made, and there are slate and millstone workings and dye works. Brive is the seat of a sub-prefect and has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal of commerce, and a school of industry.