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unusual facts about Jardin botanique de Saint-Chamond


Jardin botanique de Saint-Chamond

It now contains about 4,500 plants arranged into various gardens including English and Japanese gardens, Italian garden, herb garden, a pergola, and a pathway paved as an Aztec calendar.


Aleda E. Lutz

On November 1, 1944, she was fatally injured in a Medevac C-47 crash near Saint-Chamond, Loire, France.

Andrey Kivilev

Approximately forty kilometres from the stage finish, as the peloton passed through Saint-Chamond, Kivilev collided with Polish team mate Marek Rutkiewicz and German Volker Ordowski of Team Gerolsteiner, although they were not seriously hurt and finished the stage.

Chauchat

The fairly large Gladiator factory was thus converted into an arms manufacture in 1915 and became the principal industrial producer of Chauchat machine rifles during World War I. Later on, in 1918, a subsidiary of Compagnie des forges et acieries de la marine et d'Homecourt named SIDARME and located in Saint-Chamond, Loire, also participated in the mass manufacture of CSRGs.

Monts du Lyonnais

The Janon river running east from Terrenoire (now part of Saint-Étienne) and then the Gier continuing east from Saint-Chamond to meet the Rhone at Givors create a valley in the coal basin that separates Mont Pilat from the Monts du Lyonnais.


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