St. Étienne, a busy industrial town of France, capital of department of Loire, on the Furens, 36 m. SW. of Lyons; has been called the “Birmingham of France”; is in the centre of a rich coal district, and produces every kind of hardware; the manufacture of ribbons is also an important industry; there is a school of mines.
Population (circa 1900) given as 133,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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