Tarare

Tarare
Tarare
Commune
	Tarare town centre
	Coat of arms
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	Coordinates: 45°53′49″N 4°26′02″E / 45.8969°N 4.4339°ECoordinates: 45°53′49″N 4°26′02″E / 45.8969°N 4.4339°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Rhône
Arrondissement	Villefranche-sur-Saône
Canton	Tarare; (chef-lieu)
Intercommunality	CA de l'Ouest Rhodanien
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Bruno Peylachon
Area 1	13.99 km2 (5.40 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	10,587
• Density	760/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	243 69 243 /69 170
Elevation	069–000 m (226–0 ft) ; (avg. 420 m or 1,380 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Tarare is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France. It lies on the river, 28 miles west-northwest of Lyon by rail.

History[]

House in the Market Place

The city was founded at the beginning of the 12th century, as the priory of Tarare by the Savigny Abbey. Only weavers, shoemakers and tanners lived there, in addition to a few merchants and innkeepers.^[2] 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.^[3]

In the 1850s, silk mills at Tarare were taking on unmarried young women aged between thirteen and fifteen as apprentices. The girls had to provide birth certificates and proof of vaccination. 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.^[4]

In 1874, C. B. Black’s Guide to France, Belgium, Holland, &c said of Tarare:

“A manufacturing town (pop. 16,000), on the Tardine. Hotels: Europe; Commerce. Famous in France for the manufacture of muslins. Silks and merinoes are also made here.”^[5]

A now archaic description of the early 20th-century economy is provided by the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

Tarare is the centre of a region engaged in the production of muslins, tarletans, embroidery and silk-plush, and in printing, bleaching and other subsidiary processes. Till 1756, when the manufacture of muslins was introduced from Switzerland, the town lay unknown among the Beaujolais mountains. The manufacture of Swiss cotton yarns and crochet embroideries was introduced at the end of the 18th century; at the beginning of the 19th figured stuffs, openworks and zephyrs were first produced. The manufacture of silk-plush for hats and machine-made velvets was set up towards the end of the 19th century. A busy trade is carried on in corn, cattle, linen, hemp, thread and leather.^[6]

Nearby villages and towns[]

Map of nearby villages

Parish church, Tarare

Viaduct at the edge of town

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, footballer

References[]

^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ Commission mixte des affaires culturelles tarare, société d'histoire et d'archéologie des monts de tarare (1985). Tarare : Des origines à nos jours - Commission Mixte Des Affaires Culturelles Tarare, Société D'Histoire Et D'Archéologie Des Monts De Tarare (in French). p. 31.
^ MM. E. de Rolland; D. Clouzet (1901–1902). "Dictionnaire illustré des communes du département du Rhône" (in French). A. Storck & Cie. p. 544.
^ Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, Andrew D. Evans, William Bruce Wheeler, Julius Ruff, Discovering the Western Past, Volume II: Since 1500, pp. 140, 155
^ Charles Bertram Black, Guide to France, Belgium, Holland, the Valleys of the Rhine and Moselle, the South West of Germany and the North of Italy (London: Sampson Low, 1874), p. 512
^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tarare". Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 416.