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    Rive-de-Gier (French pronunciation: [ʁiv də ʒje], literally Bank of Gier; Arpitan: Vâr-de-Giér) is a commune in the Loire department in central France...
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    The canton of Rive-de-Gier is a French administrative division located in the department of Loire and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. At the French canton...
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    Saint-Romain-en-Jarez, La Tour-en-Jarez, Saint-Christo-en-Jarez, Rive-de-Gier and Saint-Romain-en-Gier. The Gier rises at La Jasserie on the Perdrix mountain at about...
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  • Jean Étienne Valluy (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    (15 May 1899 – 4 January 1970) was a French general. He was born in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, on 15 May 1899 to Claude (Claudius) Valluy and Jeanne, Adrienne...
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    reservoir for the Givors canal, now provides drinking water to the town of Rive-de-Gier. The Couzon drains a basin of 34 square kilometres (13 sq mi) at a mean...
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  • Compagnie des Hauts-fourneaux, forges et aciéries de la Marine et des chemins de fer, based in Rive-de-Gier. Lorette was created on 27 April 1847 in response...
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    Givors canal (redirect from Canal de Givors)
    Givors canal (French: Canal de Givors) was built between 1761 and 1781 to carry coal, other goods and passengers from Rive-de-Gier to Givors on the Rhône,...
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  • Saint-Étienne basin and Lyon. Jean Guillaume Roquille's birth in Rive-de-Gier, in the industrial Gier valley between Saint-Étienne and Lyon, was recorded on 26...
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    between Saint-Étienne and Rive-de-Gier was laid at a constant descent of 1.2 to 1.4%. The following section, running along the Gier valley down to Givors...
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  • Claude Verpilleux (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    running along the bed of the river or canal. Claude Verpilleux was born at Rive de Gier in 1798, son of a canal worker. His father died when he was ten. His...
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  • Jacky Le Menn (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    Jacky Le Menn (born 17 March 1941 in Rive-de-Gier) is a former member of the Senate of France. He represented the Ille-et-Vilaine department from 2008...
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    Jean-Baptiste Berlier (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    Paris, which operated until as late as 1984. Berlier, who was born in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, was also the promoter of various ideas for a subterranean tramway...
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  • Hugues-Fleury Donzel (14 February 1791, Rive-de-Gier, Loire – 18 November 1850, Lyon) was a French entomologist specialising in butterflies and moths....
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    Cyril Dessel (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    Cyril Dessel (born 29 November 1974 in Rive-de-Gier, Loire) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2000...
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  • Émile Jaboulay (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    1961) was a French chemist and metallurgist. Émile Jaboulay was born in Rive-de-Gier on 14 February 1879, son of an engineer. His higher education led to...
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    Robichon to build a glass works at Givors with furnaces heated by coal from Rive-de-Gier. Until then these glass makers had operated in Franche-Comté and in Alsace...
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  • M. Gaudet, mechanics and forgers, set up shops at Saint-Chamond and Rive-de-Gier. In 1841 Pétin et Gaudet introduced one of the first steam hammers at...
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    Pradines Pralong Précieux Régny Renaison La Ricamarie Riorges Rivas Rive-de-Gier Roannesubpr Roche Roche-la-Molière Roisey Rozier-Côtes-d'Aurec Rozier-en-Donzy...
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  • des topographies souterraines. p. 51. Retrieved 2013-08-20. Meugy, Alphonse (1848). Historique des mines de Rive-de-Gier, Loire. Retrieved 2013-08-20....
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  • programmed with different bands during the 1998 edition of the French Rive de Gier jazz festival and producer Gérard Terronès took the opportunity to record...
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  • However, Zacharie was only authorized to build the Givors canal as far as Rive-de-Gier. In December 1788 King Louis XVI approved construction of a reservoir...
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  • and machinist, then as a mine engineer in the mines at Tartaras near Rive-de-Gier. In 1856 he entered a partnership with the Deflassieux brothers, who...
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    1953 and 1962: Opening of the central section between Saint-Chamond and Rive-de-Gier (current Junction 11). 1970: Opening of an extension to Givors. In Givors...
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  • Christian Raynaud (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    Christian Raynaud Personal information Nationality Belgian Born (1946-04-28) 28 April 1946 (age 78) Rive-de-Gier, France Sport Sport Sports shooting...
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    portion of the Saint-Étienne–Lyon railway opened between Givors and Rive-de-Gier on 1 July 1830. The rest of the line opened on 1 October 1832 for passenger...
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    Pavezin (42167) Pélussin (42168) Planfoy (42172) La Ricamarie (42183) Rive-de-Gier (42186) Roche-la-Molière (42189) Roisey (42191) Saint-Appolinard (42201)...
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    Tramontana; Georg Graewe (1998). Schz!. Splasc(h). Live In Noci And Rive-De Gier. Leo. 1991. Skies of Europe. ECM. 1994. European Concerts '94-'97. Nel...
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    Monique Mayère (category People from Rive-de-Gier)
    Monique Mayère Monique in 2006 Born Monique Mayère 1944 Rive-de-Gier Nationality French Known for Sculpture, Painting...
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    Coal-seam fire (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    de Saint-Etienne et de Rive-de-Gier. Louis Beaunier 1817, p.143 Essai sur la lithologie des environs de Saint-Etienne-en-Forez, De Bournon, 1785, from...
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    Franco-Prussian war memorial Manufacture d'armes de Saint-Étienne Médiathèques de Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne – Gorges de la Loire Nature Reserve Saint-Étienne Cathedral...
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