Rive-de-Gier (French pronunciation: [ʁiv də ʒje], literally Bank of Gier; Arpitan: Vâr-de-Giér) is a commune in the Loire department in central France...

Saint-Romain-en-Jarez, La Tour-en-Jarez, Saint-Christo-en-Jarez, Rive-de-Gier and Saint-Romain-en-Gier. The Gier rises at La Jasserie on the Perdrix mountain at about...

The canton of Rive-de-Gier is a French administrative division located in the department of Loire and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. At the French canton...

reservoir for the Givors canal, now provides drinking water to the town of Rive-de-Gier. The Couzon drains a basin of 34 square kilometres (13 sq mi) at a mean...

(15 May 1899 – 4 January 1970) was a French general. He was born in Rive-de-Gier, Loire, on 15 May 1899 to Claude (Claudius) Valluy and Jeanne, Adrienne...

Compagnie des Hauts-fourneaux, forges et aciéries de la Marine et des chemins de fer, based in Rive-de-Gier. Lorette was created on 27 April 1847 in response...

Givors canal (French: Canal de Givors) was built between 1761 and 1781 to carry coal, other goods and passengers from Rive-de-Gier to Givors on the Rhône,...

However, Zacharie was only authorized to build the Givors canal as far as Rive-de-Gier. In December 1788 King Louis XVI approved construction of a reservoir...

Saint-Étienne basin and Lyon. Jean Guillaume Roquille's birth in Rive-de-Gier, in the industrial Gier valley between Saint-Étienne and Lyon, was recorded on 26...

Jacky Le Menn (born 17 March 1941 in Rive-de-Gier) is a former member of the Senate of France. He represented the Ille-et-Vilaine department from 2008...