Tarare is a commune in the

Rhône The Rhône ( , ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Ròse''; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Rôno'') is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before dischargi ...

department in eastern

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

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

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 *

Corentin Tolisso Corentin Tolisso (born 3 August 1994) is a French professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Midfielder#Central midfielder, central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon. A graduate of the Lyon academy, Tolisso ...

, 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

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