Culoz

Geography

The city is located in the Ain on Right Bank of the the Rhone, in a part arranged and channeled after the various hydraulic installations of the National company of the Rhone. It is with the foot of the Grand Dovecote, which finishes the chain of the the Jura and is with a few kilometers of the first buttresses of the the Alps.

History

The city is an important crossroads at the road and railway level. Its station is of central importance, sees its lines moving towards Geneva, Bellegarde-on-Valserine, Evian, Aix-the-Baths, Borough-saint-Maurice, Lyon and Paris. The next opening of line TGV of Haut-Bugey should divert a considerable part of the traffic towards Geneva.

Curiosities

Famous characters

Henry Dunant, naturalized French in Culoz. (founder of the Red Cross)

The brothers Leon and Henry Wild thyme, precursors of the car. They invented the principle of the generator with instantaneous vaporization. Henri and Leon decide to manufacture a steam engine to mechanize the saw of their father. They replace the boiler by a pump injecting of water between smooth surfaces heated and separated by 1/10 Misters water vaporizes instantaneously and is sent in a cylinder to drive a piston. In 1888, Leon carries out tests to 30 km/h on a motor tricycle with instantaneous vaporization. The following year, this tricycle is improved: Phaéton is a genuine car. Leon Wild thyme course the Paris-Lyon distance in 10 days.

The surgeon Antonin PONCET born in 1845 and deceased in Culoz in 1951.

Administration

Demography

See too

List of the Common of Ain

External bonds

history of Culoz (monograph)
Official site of the town of Culoz

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