Thiers, Puy-de-Dôme: Former Foundry Workers Create Art
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- From the Middle Ages, the city stuck on the heights of the Livradois-Forez natural park, with a view of the chain of the Puys, was industry.
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From the Middle Ages, the city stuck on the heights of the Livradois-Forez natural park, with a view of the chain of the Puys, was industry. In the gorges that dig its back, 140 locks are built, around forty factories are emerging. Tanneries and paper mills first. Once abandoned by the Huguenots who left in exile, thay became in the 19th century high places of cutlery. But the hydraulic force was soon replaced by electricity. Work moved to the plains. After the war, ruin wins.