SAINT-CHAMOND

săN-shämäNˈ, city (1990 pop. 39,262), Loire dept., SE France, at the confluence of the Gier and Janon rivers. The city was originally developed in the 19th cent. as a coal-mining center. Its products now include specialty steel construction components, military equipment (tanks), plastics, dyes, and textile products. The remains of a Roman aqueduct are in Saint-Chamond.

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Merchants and Capitalists: Industrialization and Provincial Politics in Mid-Nineteenth Century France
Book by David M. Gordon; University of Alabama, 1985
Subjects: Business And Politics--France--Reims--History--19th Century, Business And Politics--France--Saint Aetienne (Loire)--History--19th Century, Reims (France)--Politics And Government
...Includes index. 1. Reims France --Politics and government. 2. Saint Etienne Loire, France --Politics and government. 3. Business...Reims--History--19th century. 4. Business and politics--France--Saint Etienne Loire --History--19th century. I. Title JS5205.R42G67...
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The Industrial Revolution in France, 1815-1848
Book by Arthur Louis Dunham; Exposition Press, 1955
Subjects: France--Economic Conditions, France--Industries
...conditions were worst, as in the region around Saint-Etienne and Lyons, the main road down...Department of Nord. In the region around Saint-Etienne and Lyons, much of the trouble...projets de canal de la Loire au Rhone Saint-Etienne: Theolier, 1930 , 103. He quotes...
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Migrants in Modern France: Population Mobility in the Later Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Book by Philip E. Ogden, Paul E. White; Unwin Hyman, 1989
Subjects: Labor Mobility--France--History--19th Century, Labor Mobility--France--History--20th Century, Migration, Internal--France--History--19th Century, Migration, Internal--France--History--20th Century
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The Peasants of Marlhes: Economic Development and Family Organization in Nineteenth-Century France
Book by James R. Lehning; University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Subjects: Family--France--Marlhes--History, Marlhes (France)--Economic Conditions
...of the valley -- Rive-de-Gier, Saint-Chamond, Le Chambon-Feugerolles, and...urban centers of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Chamond and Rive-de-Gier totally unprovided...Rive-de-Gier southwest through Saint-Chamond, Saint-Etienne, and Le Chambon-Feugerolles...
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature
Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Colette H. Winn, Perry Gethner, Samia I. Spencer, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: Feminism And Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Women Authors--Encyclopedias, Women Authors, French--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women In Literature--Encyclopedias
...letter of monastic advice from Caesaria II, abbess of Saint Jean dArles c. 550 , to Saint Radegund, abbess of Poitiers and Frankish queen...Fortunatus and Baudonivia; in addition, the vita of Saint Austreberta 650-703 appears from its preface...
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Workers and Community: The Case of the Peat-Cutters and the Shipbuilding Industry in Saint-Nazaire, 1881-1910
Journal article by Leslie Ann Schuster; Journal of Social History, Vol. 27, 1994
Subjects: Employees--Social aspects, St. Nazaire, France, Work environment--Social aspects, Working class--Social aspects
...Ibid., p. 128. 57. Ibid., pp. 126-128. 58. Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 (Berkeley, 1989), p. 10. 59. High unemployment in the French shipbuilding industry can be attributed to...
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Writing Modern Selves: Literacy and the French Working Class in the Early Nineteenth Century
Journal article by Steven E. Rowe; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Literacy--France, Literacy--History, Proletariat--History, Social history--19th century AD, Social sciences and history--19th century AD, Working class in television--History, Working class--History
...Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint-Chamond, 1815-1914 (Berkeley, 1989); Ronald...331-334. 36. The largest collection of Saint-Simonian archives are the Fonds Enfantin...of Paris began shortly after the Saint-Simonian movement organized these...
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"Without Belonging to Public Service": Charities, the State, and Civil Society in Third Republic Bordeaux, 1870-1914
Journal article by Steven M. Beaudoin; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Bordeaux--Social aspects, Charities--History, Civil society--History, France--Social aspects, Social service--History, Welfare--France
...associational life in nineteenth-century France see Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914 (Berkeley, 1989), 141-208; Maurice Agulhon, Le cercle dans la France bourgeoise (1810-1848): Etude dune...


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Saint-Chamond
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAINT-CHAMOND saN-shamaN , city (1990 pop. 39,262), Loire dept., SE France, at the...plastics, dyes, and textile products. The remains of a Roman aqueduct are in Saint-Chamond. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used...


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