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Forez
Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the central part of the modern Loire ''département'' and a part of the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme ''départements''. The final "z" in Forez () is not pronounced in the Loire département; however, it is pronounced in the western part of the former province, essentially when referring to the correspondent Forez Mountains (on the border between Puy-de-Dôme and Loire. The name is derived from the city of Feurs. Franco-Provençal is the language that was historically spoken in the region. The city of Montbrison, Loire is considered the historical capital of the Forez. Residents of the Forez are called Foréziens. The rue du Forez in the third arrondissement of Paris was built in the late 16th century and appears on Turgot's map of Paris. List of counts of Forez The origins of the county of Forez are obscure. There are several early figures who are sometimes supposed to have been counts of Forez. Whether thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forez Mountains
Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the central part of the modern Loire ''département'' and a part of the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme ''départements''. The final "z" in Forez () is not pronounced in the Loire département; however, it is pronounced in the western part of the former province, essentially when referring to the correspondent Forez Mountains (on the border between Puy-de-Dôme and Loire. The name is derived from the city of Feurs. Franco-Provençal is the language that was historically spoken in the region. The city of Montbrison, Loire is considered the historical capital of the Forez. Residents of the Forez are called Foréziens. The rue du Forez in the third arrondissement of Paris was built in the late 16th century and appears on Turgot's map of Paris. List of counts of Forez The origins of the county of Forez are obscure. There are several early figures who are sometimes supposed to have been counts of Forez. Whether thes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guigues IV Of Forez
Guigues IV or Guy IV (died 10 August. or 29 October. 1241) was the count of Forez, Auxerre and Tonnerre from 1203 and the count of Nevers from 1226. He was still a child when his father, Guigues III, died on the Fourth Crusade and he inherited Forez. His mother was Alix and his uncle, Renaud, archbishop of Lyon, acted as regent until he came of age in 1218. Guigues's first wife was Mahaut, daughter of Guy II of Dampierre. In 1223, Guigues granted a communal charter to the town of Montbrison. On 16 April 1224, he returned the places of Saint-Rambert, Bonson, Chambles, Saint-Cyprien and Saint-Just to the monastery of Île Barbe, declaring that they were allods held freely and that he and his predecessors had unjustly possessed them. In 1224, Guigues also founded a collegiate church of thirteen canons at Montbrison, dedicating it to the Virgin Mary. The foundation of Notre-Dame-d'Espérance was confirmed by Archbishop Renaud in October 1224. The charter of foundation mandated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feurs
Feurs (; frp, Fuèrs) is a commune in the department of Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. History Antiquity The city was founded by the Romans. The name Feurs is a contraction of ''Segusiavorum Forum''. With a forum the Gallo-Roman era, city was the capital of Ségusiaves as is indicated by Ptolemy and appears on the Tabula Peutingeriana. By extension, the city gave its name to Forez. Vestiges of the ancient Roman city are located by the current post office. Archaeologists have unearthed a theater, sewers, milestones, inscriptions, statuettes and pottery that reflect the importance, at that time, of the Roman the town, located near important Roman roads. Middle Ages A church dedicated to St. Baudile is reported in 960. A second dedicated to the Virgin Mary appears in the texts in 1001. A Castle in Feurs is reported in 1246. In the Middle Ages, the city had no bridge over the Loire but there was a harbor(953) and another close to Randans (1060). File:Vestiges de la cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montbrison, Loire
Montbrison (; frp, Montbréson) is a commune and a subprefecture of the Loire department in central France. Montbrison was the historical capital of the counts of Forez, and today it is the principal city in the Forez. The commune gives its name to the popular blue cheese '' Fourme de Montbrison'', which has been made in the region for centuries. It received Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée status in 1972. History The town of Montbrison was founded in the area around the lords' castles in the Forez region, of which Montbrison would later become the capital. The earliest recorded reference to the town dates to 870CE. The town was fortified following the attacks by the English army at the start of the Hundred Years War. During the Religious Wars, Montbrison was captured and pillaged by the Protestant forces of François de Beaumont in 1562, with the town's garrison thrown from the ramparts onto spikes placed by the attackers. The Convent of the Visitation was founded in 1643 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guigues III Of Forez
Guigues III (died 1203), also numbered Guigues IV,His name is also rendered Guy, Guigo or Wigo, as in ("Guigo IV"). nicknamed ''Branda'', was the count of Forez from 1199 until his death while on the Fourth Crusade. Guigues succeeded his father, Guigues II, in 1199 when the latter retired to the . In 1202, he was at Lyon preparing to leave on crusade when he issued a charter in favour of his father's monastery. According to Geoffrey of Villehardouin, he and Bishop Walter of Autun did not travel with the main army, but took ship at Marseille direct for the Holy Land. They were accompanied by an army of 300 knights and sergeants. According to the ''Chronicle of Ernoul'', he died shortly after his arrival in Acre in 1203. He was buried in the Hospitaller church of Saint John in Acre. In 1215, his brother, Archbishop Renaud of Lyon, donated money for an annual celebration on the anniversary of Guigues's death at the hospital of Montbrison, a family foundation. Guigues's first wife ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco-Provençal Language
Franco-Provençal (also Francoprovençal, Patois or Arpitan) is a language within Gallo-Romance originally spoken in east-central France, western Switzerland and northwestern Italy. Franco-Provençal has several distinct dialects and is separate from but closely related to neighbouring Romance dialects (the langues d'oïl and the langues d'oc, in France, as well as Rhaeto-Romance in Switzerland and Italy). Even with all its distinct dialects counted together, the number of Franco-Provençal speakers has been declining significantly and steadily. According to UNESCO, Franco-Provençal was already in 1995 a "potentially endangered language" in Italy and an "endangered language" in Switzerland and France. Ethnologue classifies it as "nearly extinct". The designation ''Franco-Provençal'' (Franco-Provençal: ; french: francoprovençal; it, francoprovenzale) dates to the 19th century. In the late 20th century, it was proposed that the language be referred to under the neologism ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archbishop Of Lyon
The Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: ''Archidiœcesis Lugdunensis''; French: ''Archidiocèse de Lyon''), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France. The Archbishops of Lyon serve as successors to Saint Pothinus and Saint Irenaeus, the first and second bishops of Lyon, respectively, and are also called Primate of the Gauls. He is usually elevated to the rank of cardinal. Bishop Olivier de Germay was appointed Archbishop of Lyon on 22 October 2020. History Persecution The "Deacon of Vienne", who was martyred at Lyon during the persecution of 177, was probably a deacon installed at Vienne by the ecclesiastical authority of Lyon. The confluence of the Rhône and the Saône, where sixty Gallic tribes had erected the famous altar to Rome and Augustus, was also the centre from which Christianity was gradually propagated throughout Gaul. The presence at Lyon of numerous Asiatic Christians and their almost d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guigues I Of Forez
Guigues may refer to: Nobility * Guigues I of Albon, count of Oisans, Grésivaudan, and Briançonnais * Guigues III of Albon, also Guigues the Old, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Albon, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Forez, count of Forez, Auxerre and Tonnerre * Guigues V of Albon, count of Albon and Grenoble * Guigues VI of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VIII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne Other notable people * Guigues Guiffrey, French soldier * Joseph-Bruno Guigues (1805-1874), Oblate priest Places * Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, often shortened to Guigues, is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region o ..., often shortened to Guigues, Quebec, Canada * Saint-Eugène-de-Guigues, Quebec, Canada {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guigues II Of Forez
Guigues may refer to: Nobility * Guigues I of Albon, count of Oisans, Grésivaudan, and Briançonnais * Guigues III of Albon, also Guigues the Old, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Albon, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Forez, count of Forez, Auxerre and Tonnerre * Guigues V of Albon, count of Albon and Grenoble * Guigues VI of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VIII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne Other notable people * Guigues Guiffrey, French soldier * Joseph-Bruno Guigues (1805-1874), Oblate priest Places * Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, often shortened to Guigues, is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region o ..., often shortened to Guigues, Quebec, Canada * Saint-Eugène-de-Guigues, Quebec, Canada {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guigues V Of Forez
Guigues may refer to: Nobility * Guigues I of Albon, count of Oisans, Grésivaudan, and Briançonnais * Guigues III of Albon, also Guigues the Old, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Albon, count of Albon * Guigues IV of Forez, count of Forez, Auxerre and Tonnerre * Guigues V of Albon, count of Albon and Grenoble * Guigues VI of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne * Guigues VIII of Viennois, dauphin of Vienne Other notable people * Guigues Guiffrey, French soldier * Joseph-Bruno Guigues (1805-1874), Oblate priest Places * Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues, often shortened to Guigues, is a municipality in northwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality Témiscamingue is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region o ..., often shortened to Guigues, Quebec, Canada * Saint-Eugène-de-Guigues, Quebec, Canada {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haute-Loire
Haute-Loire (; oc, Naut Léger or ''Naut Leir''; English: Upper Loire) is a landlocked department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of south-central France. Named after the Loire River, it is surrounded by the departments of Loire, Ardèche, Lozère, Cantal and Puy-de-Dôme. In 2019, it had a population of 227,570;Populations légales 2019: 43 Haute-Loire INSEE its inhabitants are called ''Altiligériens'' in French (English : Altiligerians). The department, which has its prefecture in , covers the upper reaches of the Loire and consists of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loire
The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône. It rises in the southeastern quarter of the French Massif Central in the Cévennes range (in the department of Ardèche) at near Mont Gerbier de Jonc; it flows north through Nevers to Orléans, then west through Tours and Nantes until it reaches the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) at Saint-Nazaire. Its main tributaries include the rivers Nièvre, Maine and the Erdre on its right bank, and the rivers Allier, Cher, Indre, Vienne, and the Sèvre Nantaise on the left bank. The Loire gives its name to six departments: Loire, Haute-Loire, Loire-Atlantique, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire, and Saône-et-Loire. The lower-central swathe of its valley straddling the Pays de la Loire and Centre-Val de Loire regions was added to the World ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
