Limoges Town Hall, Which Survived Two World Wars, Is Destroyed in France Riots

Fun fact

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.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limoger