Lignon du Velay, a river in south-central France, right tributary of the Loire
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Lignon du Forez, a river in south-central France, left tributary of the Loire
It is one of only two villages in the world that collectively received Righteous Among the Nations award for all 117 inhabitants of the village for saving Jews during World War II, the other being the French Le Chambon-sur-Lignon.
Camus wrote Le Malentendu in 1942 and 1943 in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in Nazi-occupied France.