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Roanne
France, officially the French Republic, is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and comprises various overseas islands and territories which are located in other regions. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. At 674,843 square kilometers, France is the world's 40th-largest country after Myanmar. France is a member of The European Union and Paris is the capital of this nation. The sole official language of France is French. Since prehistoric times, France has been a crossroads of trade, migrations, and invasions.
Roanne is a town and community in southern France in the Loire department, about 90 kilometers north-west of Lyon. It lies upon the River Loire. The city’s population as per the 1999 census was 38,896 and the density was 2,412.9 per square kilometers. In the 12th century, the site passed to the Comte du Forez, under whose care it began to improve. An overland route led to Lyon and the Rhone, thus Roanne developed as a trans-shipping point between Paris and the Mediterranean in early modern France, where waterways were at least as significant as roads.
The city offers business related to the export of local products that include wines, including casks of Beaujolais that had been shipped overland, textiles and ceramics and after 1785, coal from Saint-Etienne, which had previously been onloaded upstream at Saint-Rambert, since river improvements at the beginning of the century. Sturdy goods were rafted downriver on sapinières that were dismantled after use. Next came the opening of the canal from Roanne to Digoin in 1838, which placed the city in the forefront of the French Industrial Revolution. In the year 1917 the arsenal was established at Roanne, and from 1940 a new industry developed, producing rayon and other new fibers. In the post-industrial phase that set in during the 1970s, the city struggled to find new industry and attract tourism.
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