Feurs

Feurs is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps.

Blasonnement

Of money, with a pot with handles and three feet of sand, from which leaves a flame gold fire and mouths.

Geography

Feurs is located in full heart of the plain of Drill, in the department of the Loire (42).

The inhabitants of Feurs are Foréziens.

History

Feurs draws his origin from the Roman denomination of Forum Segusiavorum , place of exchanges of the ancient people, the Ségusiaves. One finds in the city, beside the Post office, of the vestiges of old the Roman city.

It directly gave its name to the province of the Forez.

The Ville was mentioned by the ancient geographer Ptolémée.

It was fugitively chief town of the department of the the Loire of 1793 with 1795

It had one of the first railroads: The 3rd line of France Andrézieux - Roanne opens its 1st section the 1832 between Saint-Bonnet-the-Oules and Balbigny. It is in Feurs which is on this section that the workshops of the company are installed which will build several engines under the orders of engineer Régnié.

Feurs, today, is definitively turned towards Saint-Etienne, a city-model for it. The archaeological sites of interests are numerous but all are discovered during various work on the commune.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Museum of Archeology, 3 rue Victor de Laprade. The vault of martyrdoms, built in memory of the victims guillotinées during the Revolution of 1789. Make which rains, fountain whose origin is lost in the mists of time.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Franck Montagny, pilot of Formula 1.

  • Philippe Artias (1912-2002), painter. Raise and friend of Picasso ().

Twinning

Feurs signed oaths of twinning with:
Olching is located approx. 20 km at the west of Munich, Bavaria (München, Bayern)

See too

  • the Enfants of Drill ( local team of Basket-ball evolving/moving in NM1 )
  • the Crazy Dunkers, is at the same time a concept, a show and a team of basketball carrying out of acrobatics on a basketball court (). They in particular ensured of the spectacles for the NBA and the Olympic Games (Athens, 2004)
  • Communes of the Loire

External bonds

  • Site of section shooting to the arc of the Take-off of Feurs

  • Site of the tourist office of Feurs
  • the Children of Drill
  • Crazy Dunkers
  • WEBFEURS: Creation of Internet site to FEURS
  • Tourist office of Feurs
  • Histoire of Drill
  • Feurs on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Feurs on the site of INSEE
  • Feurs on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Feurs on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plan on Feurs on Mapquest
  • Site of the Musical Association of Feurs: Orchestrates of Harmony and associative Music school

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