Roanne

Roanne is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps. Its inhabitants is called Roannais.

Geography

The city is located in the area of the Lyonnais and more precisely in the north of the Forez. It is crossed by the the Loire. It is a crossroads of the Western zone of the Rhone-Alps, main door of the Burgundy and Auvergne.

Roanne is sprinkled, in addition to the the Loire, by the Renaison and the Oudan out of left bank, and by the the Rhines out of Right Bank, on which Roanne has a little its territory, heritage of the old layout méandreux of the Loire before its correction during the XIXe century. Renaison and the Rhines were rivers very exploited for their driving force. The Brothers Montgolfier had Papeterie S on Renaison.

The geographical area surrounding Roanne is called Roannaise area.

Blasonnement

Of azure, with a money crescent surmounted by the cross of the Legion of honor.

In 1864, the Legion of honor was granted by Napoleon III the city for its resistance to the Austrians in 1814.

This blasonnement since 1663 is known (without the Legion of honor). However, another blasonnement is quoted:

Of money, with the rafter of Mouths charged with a gold merlette.

It is allowed to see in the crescent a stylized boat, evoking the vocation ancestral batelière of Roanne. This reason for the crescent is found in the blazon of the Saint-Maurice-on-Loire, old city of boatmen dominating the gorges of the Loire, with a few kilometers upstream of Roanne.

Currency of the city

Crescam and lucebo : I will grow and I will shine.

Transport and infrastructures

Roads

  • RN 7: connecting Paris to the Riviera called the “blue Road”.
  • RD 482 : connecting Roanne to Digoin.
  • secondary Road 504: connecting Roanne to Villefranche-sur-Saône.
  • A72: connected to Roanne by D8 thus binding the city to Clermont Ferrand and Saint Etienne.

Airport

  • Airport Roanne-Renaison known as " of Wood-Combray"

Railway station

  • Station of Roanne
connection FOR THE THIRD TIME Roanne/St Etienne Chateaucreux; connection FOR THE THIRD TIME Lyon Perrache/Clermont Ferrand; connection Lyon Perrache/St German of the Ditches/Turns

River transport

Administration

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Demography

Economy

Michelin opened there its last French Manufacture of Pneu S in 1974. The city undergoes a Economic crisis when the State decreased or stopped some of its industrial activities, (example: GIAT, industry of the armament), and industry gradually yielded its place to the companies of the tertiary sector.

Today, the city specialized in the services, the Technologie S of point and the Tourisme. The infrastructures of reception and its situation privileged between the highlands of the Madeleine and the mounts of the Beaujolais make of them a place particularly appreciated of the epicureans, gastronomes and impassioned of nature.

Roanne is the seat of the Chamber of commerce and industry of Roannais.

Education

  • the Université of Saint-Etienne decentralized part of its lesson to the Campus of Roanne
  • Institut of sciences and technology of the engineer (ISTIL)
  • Ecole of engineers textile and chemical Institut (ITECH)

History

Roanne appears before the Roman conquest under the name of Rod-Onna (“water which runs”) which will become Rodumna, then Rouhanne and finally Roanne. Its area is occupied by the Segusiaves at the time of the conquest of the Gaulle by César.

The city is established on a strategic point, at the place where the Loire calms down with leaving throats of Granite and Porphyre.

At second century BC settles a village Gaulois dominating the Loire. This village develops until becoming a small town of approximately a thousand of inhabitants at the time Gallo-Roman where Roanne is quoted like city of Ségusiaves by the Greek astronomer-geographer Ptolémée under the name of Rodoumna . It is reproduced on the road map of the Roman Empire called Table of Peutinger. The development is due to its situation with a crossroads of lanes where the river had passed to ford.

It is an important crossing point at the time Gallo-Roman, but declines about the 10th century.

To the 12th century, the city passes to the count Drill which gives again its gloss to him. As of the end of the Middle Ages, navigation on the Loire takes a very active share in the urban development by exporting the local products: wines, ceramics, textile then starting from 1705 coal of Saint-Etienne.

The Roannais was set up in Duché in 1566 in favor of Claude Gouffier, and which passed since in the house of Feuillade.

Roanne east one of the first cities to being served by the railroad as of the March 15th 1833 with the arrival out of Right Bank of the Loire to the wearing of Game preserve of the 3rd line of France coming from Andrézieux. At the same time, the opening of the channel of Roanne with Digoin in 1838 the place in the first ranks of the industrial towns of the country.

In 1917 is established the arsenal of Roanne, and starting from 1940 develops the industry of the man-made fibers (rayon, staple fiber). Invention and manufacture of the Tank Leclerc in the workshops of the arsenal of Roanne. In the Years 1970, the economic crisis strikes hard the city and its area which turn worms of new technologies then, like worms tourism (ski to 30 km, river pleasure, water sport, country holidays, gastronomy, enology…).

Tourist monuments and places

  • Vault Saint Nicolas's Day of the Marines (1630)

  • Vault Saint-Michel (old vault of the college Jesuit founded by the Father Cotton in 1609 (future college Jean Puy)

  • Residential building, style Bauhaus, street Bourgneuf

  • Keep (integrated in the castle several times altered which shelters the tourist office today)

  • Gallo-Roman Vestiges (furnaces of potters)

  • Carolingian Vestiges (baptistries discovered in 2005)

  • Bridge on the Loire (engineer Pierre-Benoit Of Tide gate, 1834)

Famous characters

Policy

  • Jean Auroux, (born in Thizy, the Rhone) mayor of Roanne of 1977 to 2001, and promoter of the laws on work which bear its name whereas he was Minister for Labor.
  • David Rousset (1912-1997), born with Roanne, hero of the Resistance, deportee, author of the Universe concentrationnaire and the Days of our death, two works fundamental on the concentration camps
  • the Father Cotton, (born with Néronde in 1564, died in 1626), Confessor of Henri IV then of Louis XIII, and founder of the college Jesuit of Roanne which will become in 1889 a college of State, and will carry since 1962 the name of college Jean Puy, of the name of the fawn-coloured painter , deceased two years before, and which had attended itself the college in its youth. The Coton father was the large uncle of another native famous monk of the area (Castle of Aix): the Father Lachaise, confessor of Louis XIV.

Arts and literature

Arts of the table

  • Family Troisgros (Pierre and Jean initially, Michel now), cooks in the famous one restoring the Brothers Troisgros , “better restoring world” according to the Gault-Millau of 1972. The restaurant was again seen decreeing this distinction by Zagat Survey, in 2007. For the arrival of the president François Mitterrand, and following a joke between Jean Auroux (then mayor of Roanne) and Pierre Troisgros, the station located opposite the restaurant was repainted with the colors of the Saumon to the Oseille, speciality of the famous table. Jean Troisgros is deceased in 1983. The place in front of the restaurant bears from now on its name, and it is decorated of a work of the sculptor Arman, who has roannaises roots, representing a stacking of forks.

Science, medicine

  • Joseph Déchelette, (1862 -1914), Archeologist (death with the face in 1914).
  • Rene Leriche, Doctor, one of the world specialists in the surgery of the sympathetic nerve and the phenomenon of the pain in first half of the XXe century.

Sportsmen

Sports

  • the pride roannaise in sporting terms is its team of Basket-ball, the Chorale Roanne Basket , evolving/moving in Pro has.
  • Roanne XIII : Four times champion of France of Rugby to XIII.
  • Other subjects of pride roannaise as regards water sports: its team of Canoe-kayak of Matel-Sport which brought many kayakers in team of France; its team of Oar; and its team of tournaments.
  • Roanne also shines in the Twirling stick where it is vice champion of tiny France category and gained the cut of France in duet junior and junior. It also has many championships of the Loire and zone all confused categories.

Twinnings

External bonds

  • Official site of the town of Roanne
  • Tourist office of Pole of Roannais
  • Directory of Internet sites of Roannais
  • the gate of Roanne
  • Site gate of Roanne and its area
  • the channel of Roanne with Digoin
  • the river site of Roanne

The radio and the TNT

  • Frequency FM (MHz) + Name of the station:

87.6 RTL 2 - 88.3 RCF - 89.4 Europe 2 - 89.8 RTL - 90.9 France-Inter - 91.5 Traditional Radio - 91.9 Radio operator Scoop - 93.6 RVR - 96.1 France Musics - 96.8 Nostalgia - 97.6 radio hope - 98.0 Skyrock - 99.0 France Culture - 100.2 BFRS - 104.0 NRJ - 105.5 France Info - 106.0 MFM -106.7 Darling FM - 107.3 RFM

  • TNT : Channel 21 (R1) - Channel 27 (R2) - Channel 37 (R3) - Channel 60 (R4) - Channel 63 (R6)

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