Gier (river) | Gier | Rive (VC) | Rive-de-Gier | Rive | Kerstin Gier | François Jules Pictet de la Rive |
The company's history dates to 1856 when Lucien Arbel in association with the Deflaissieux brothers began business in Rive de Gier in the Loire area of France; in 1869 he founded the Forges de Couzon on the river Couzon in Rive de Gier.
Jean Guillaume Roquille's birth in Rive-de-Gier, in the industrial Gier valley between Saint-Étienne and Lyon, was recorded on 26 October 1804.
Marie Bonnevial (1841-1918), teacher and activist of the League of Women's Rights