Saint-Priest-in-Jarez

See also: Saint-Priest

Saint-Priest-in-Jarez is a common French, located in the department of the the Loire and the area the Rhone-Alps. Its inhabitants is called the Mounards .

Geography

St Priest extends on a surface from 307 hectares. It is bordering on the communes of Saint-Etienne, Villars, Étrat, and Turn-in-Jarez.

Urban transport

See also: Shipping company of the Agglomeration Inhabitant of Saint-Etienne, Line of bus STAS

. Saint-Priest-in-Jarez is served by the STAS (Company of public transport of the agglomeration inhabitant of Saint-Etienne) in the zone large Saint-Etienne. line 4 of the tram makes several stops in the commune.

History

The old borough of Saint-Priest, with 605 meters of altitude, occupies the top of the nipple where Sanctus Projectus would have lived as a hermit before becoming bishop of Clermont from 666 to 676. It is there that, according to the tradition brought back by the abbot of Soleysel, few years afterwards, Oursion would have made build a church " for expier his complicity in the murder of this Saint of Auvergne". It would be thus him which would have given its name to the village. Guy II, count de Forez, were obliged, in 1773, to divide his states into small seigniories: The Tower, Holy Romain, Saint Julien formed the County of Jarez whose Saint Priest was the chief town. The house of Jarez drew its name from Latin Jaresium or Giaresium, which itself drew to it his from Gier (Giarum)

Administration

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Demography

Places and monuments

Personalities related to the commune

CLAUDE CHABOISSIER

See too

  • Common of the Loire

External bonds

  • Saint-Priest-in-Jarez on the site of the national geographical Institute
  • Saint-Priest-in-Jarez on the site of INSEE
  • Saint-Priest-in-Jarez on the site of Quid
  • Localization of Saint-Priest-in-Jarez on a chart of France and communes bordering
  • Plane on Saint-Priest-in-Jarez on Mapquest

Simple: Saint-Priest-in-Jarez

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