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Le Pouzin
Le Pouzin, Ardèche commune on the right bank of the Rhône at the Ouvèze confluence, known for its 2nd-century Roman bridge, the Cluniac priory of Rompon, and the 1960-1961 CNR road bridge over the Rhône.
Lentilly
Lentilly is a commune in the Rhône department, France, about 18 km northwest of Lyon, with a Chalcolithic dagger, a La Tène farm at Les Fourches, the Brévenne aqueduct arcades, the fanum of Mercruy, and an 1866 hoard of about 200 Julio-Claudian gold aurei.
Limony
Limony is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France, the most northerly in the department, on the right bank of the Rhône with about 780 inhabitants.
Lyon
Lyon, France, founded 43 BC as Roman Lugdunum, capital of the Gauls; silk capital of Europe with canut revolts; UNESCO World Heritage historic site since 1998; 519,127 inhabitants (2023).
Mâcon
Mâcon, prefecture of Saône-et-Loire in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France; Saône-river town and Southern Burgundy capital. 35,177 inhabitants (2023), Mâconnais wine region, Lamartine's hometown, TGV and A6/A40 road hub.
Massiac
Massiac, Cantal commune in Haute-Auvergne, France (15500), namesake of the Brioude-Massiac antimony district (~32,500 t Sb), site of the Bonnac gold-mining failure of 1908-1912 and the Les Gravilles basalt quarry authorized for SAS CYMARO in 2025.
Membrey
Membrey, Haute-Saône commune in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, with 219 inhabitants; known for its large Gallo-Roman villa ruins, discovered 1838, classified monument historique since 1846.
Menthon-St-Bernard
Menthon-Saint-Bernard, Haute-Savoie commune on Lake Annecy (1,891 inhabitants, 667 ha), known for its 10th-century château, Gallo-Roman baths rediscovered in 1865, and the 1908 Palace Hôtel.
Metz
Metz, prefecture of Moselle in Grand Est, France, on the Moselle-Seille confluence; ancient Divodurum Mediomatricorum, Austrasian capital, 122,572 inhabitants (2023), seat of Metz Métropole (236,399).
Meyzieu
Meyzieu, commune in the metropolis of Lyon, Rhône, France, east of Lyon near the airport. Rural village of 2,000 in 1946, near 30,000 by 2010; Gallo-Roman villa, medieval sites La Chapelle and Villardier.
Montalieu
Montalieu usually means Montalieu-Vercieu, a commune in Isère, France, on the Rhône; a historic quarrying and Vicat cement center known as 'le pays de la pierre', with the Vallée Bleue leisure base and Maison de la Pierre et du Ciment.
Montverdun
Montverdun, Loire commune in the plaine du Forez, France, with a priory founded around 1010 on a basaltic pic, Neolithic to Gallo-Roman archaeology, and a site in Honoré d'Urfé's Astrée.
Mulhouse
Mulhouse (Mülhausen) is a city in the Alsace region of northeastern France, the largest city of Haut-Rhin with about 113,000 inhabitants, near the Swiss and German borders.
Nancy, France
Nancy, France: prefecture of Meurthe-et-Moselle and historic capital of Lorraine, population 103,671 (2023). Known for the UNESCO-listed Place Stanislas ensemble (1983), Art Nouveau heritage, and Grand Nancy metropolis.
Nanteuil-sur-Aisne
Nanteuil-sur-Aisne, an Ardennes commune (INSEE 08313, 150 inhabitants in 2023) near Rethel, is known for the Gaulish and Gallo-Roman sanctuary of Népellier, 1.5 km from Acy-Romance, with weapon deposits, votive wheels, and occupation to the 4th century.
Peyrus
Peyrus, a commune in the Drome, France, at the gates of the Vercors 20 km east of Valence; about 610 inhabitants, first recorded 1198, known for the Romanesque chapel Saint-Pierre, tuf quarries, and a Gallo-Roman villa.
Reims
Reims, city in Marne, Grand Est, France; coronation city of French kings (32 crowned, 25 in Notre-Dame cathedral) and champagne center; 177,674 inhabitants (2023); UNESCO-listed cathedral, Palace of Tau, and Abbey of Saint-Rémi since 1991.
Riom
Riom (ancient Ricomagum) is a town in Puy-de-Dôme, France, on a 355 m plateau; administrative and judicial capital of Auvergne 1212-1557, home of the Cour d'appel since 1804.
Roanne
Roanne, Loire commune and sous-préfecture on the Loire river (35,409 inhabitants in 2023); former French cotton and knitwear center, canal head, seat of Roannais Agglomération, mayor Yves Nicolin.
Sail-sur-Couzan
Sail-sur-Couzan (officially Sail-sous-Couzan), Loire, France: Forez commune under the ruined fortress of Couzan, with the Magdalenian Grotte des Fées, a Cluniac priory, and a 19th-century thermal and textile-industrial past.
Saint-Étienne
Saint-Étienne is a city in east-central France and the prefecture of the Loire department, a former coal-mining and arms-making center now known for design, holding UNESCO Creative City status since 2010.
Salt-en-Donzy
Salt-en-Donzy is a commune in the Loire department of central France, near Feurs, with about 540 inhabitants, known for its Romanesque church and medieval Donzy castle site.
Sept-Saulx
Sept-Saulx, a commune in the Marne (Grand Est) on the Vesle between Reims and Châlons-en-Champagne; 689 inhabitants (2022), member of CU du Grand Reims; known for the classed Saint-Basle church, the Louis Süe château, and a 1915 national necropolis.
Sillingy
Sillingy, a commune in Haute-Savoie, France, west of Annecy in the Communauté de Communes Fier & Usses; known for the Miroir de Faille fault mirror (~2,000 m²), the Roman-era Bains de Bromines, and the Château des Fées site on the Mandallaz.
St-Léger-du-Bois
St-Léger-du-Bois, a commune in Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (INSEE 71438), a Drée-valley coal and oil-shale mining village near Autun, home to the puits des Fourneaux masonry headframe, closed 1950.
St-Restitut
Saint-Restitut, Drôme commune in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; hilltop village of white stone near Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, known for its Miocene limestone quarries, 11th-century funerary tower, and 1840-classified Romanesque church.
St-Romain-de-Lerps
Saint-Romain-de-Lerps, a commune in the Ardèche (07130), France, on the plateau de Vernoux above the Rhône; Le Pic belvédère (649 m), château de Durtail ruins, Gallo-Roman Trou-de-l'Argentière mine.
Strasbourg
Strasbourg, capital of Alsace and the Grand Est region in eastern France, seat of the European Parliament and Council of Europe; founded as Roman Argentoratum in 12 BC, annexed by France in 1681, German 1871–1918, UNESCO-listed Grande-Île and Neustadt.
Trept
Trept, a commune in Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (45°41'N 5°19'E), on the Isle Crémieu plateau; attested ancient place (BAtlas 17 E2), Roman limestone quarry, Oxfordian paleontology site, and active lime and cement quarry.
Troyes
Troyes, prefecture of the Aube in Grand Est, France, historic capital of Champagne. Gallo-Roman Augustobona; Champagne Fairs town; 16th-century half-timbered center; 19th-century hosiery capital; 62,088 inhabitants (2023).