Tarare is a

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in the

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department in eastern

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. It lies on the Turdine river, 28 miles west-northwest of

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by rail.

History

The city was founded at the beginning of the 12th century, as the

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of Tarare by the

Savigny Abbey Savigny Abbey (''Abbaye de Savigny'') was a monastery near the village of Savigny-le-Vieux (Manche), in northern France. It was founded early in the 12th century. Initially it was the central house of the Congregation of Savigny, who were Benedi ...

. Only weavers, shoemakers and tanners lived there, in addition to a few merchants and innkeepers. In the 16th century, plagues decimated the population to the point that the consulate of Lyon initiated a special quest to aid the people in Tarare. In the 1850s, silk mills at Tarare were taking on unmarried young women aged between thirteen and fifteen as

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s. The girls had to provide birth certificates and proof of

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. As well as getting wages, they had their board and lodging, so that they worked away from home. There was a 12-hour working day, and the girls were taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. After a three-year apprenticeship, they could continue to work at the mill. Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Andrew D. Evans, William Bruce Wheeler, Julius Ruff, ''Discovering the Western Past, Volume II: Since 1500'', pp. 140, 155 In 1874, C. B. Black's ''Guide to France, Belgium, Holland, &c'' said of Tarare: A now archaic description of the early 20th-century economy is provided by the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition: Map commune FR insee code 69243

Population

Notable people

* Jean-Baptiste Vietty, sculptor * Louis Sonnery-Martin, politician * Antoine Deflotrière, cyclist * Jean Jourlin, wrestler * Roger-Arnould Rivière, poet * David Christie, singer * Anne-Laure Casseleux, footballer *

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, footballer

References

External links

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Documents sur Tarare
tarare.free.fr Communes of Rhône (department) Lyonnais {{Rhône-geo-stub

History

Population

Notable people

See also

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