See [fly-leaf], and Map of the Rhône and Savoy, [p. 27].
LYONS 349 PARIS. For time-tables, see under Paris, Roanne à Lyon par Saint Etienne. For the first 200 miles, between Paris and the important junction of St. Germain-des-Fossés, see pp. 351 to 358.
PARIS 220 129 [ST. GERMAIN-DES-FOSSES]. All the trains halt here.
231 118 [LA PALISSE], pop. 3000, on the Bèbre. The ruined castle on the eminence overlooking the town was built in the 14th century.
235½ 113½ [ARFEUILLES], pop. 3400, on the Barbenant. Fine waterfall, and castle of Montmorillon, 15th cent.
PARIS
LYONS 262 87 [ROANNE], pop. 20,000. Hotels: Centre; Commerce; *Nord. A busy, well-built, manufacturing town, on the Loire and the canal of Digoin, possessing many interesting Roman remains. Among the buildings the most noteworthy are—the church of St. Etienne, built in the 15th cent.; the ruins of the ancient feudal castle, and the college built by the Jesuit Cotton, the confessor of Henri IV. The cotton-mills employ 1200 workmen, and the annual value of the produce is £1,120,000. After Roanne, the line to St. Etienne and Le Puy passes through a picturesque country among the Cevennes and their offshoots.
PARIS
LYONS 282 67 [FEURS], pop. 4000, on the Loire. Inn: Poste. This, the ancient Forum Segusinorum, contains several antiquities, and a church partly of the 12th century. In the neighbourhood is a chalybeate spring, called La Fontaine des Quatre. Many Roman remains.
PARIS
LYONS 297½ 51½ [SAINT GALMIER], pop. 3100, on the Coise. Hotel: Poste. Springs of mineral water of great repute, called by the Romans Aquae Segestae. It is exported, and not utilised on the spot (see [p. 348]).
St. Etienne.
PARIS
LYONS 312 37 [SAINT ETIENNE], 1770 ft. above the sea, pop. 127,000. Hotels: Nord; France; both first-class. The Poste; Europe; Des Arts; Paris, are less expensive, and frequented by commercial travellers. From the Europe the diligences start for Annonay. In the Rue de la Paix is the Temple Protestant. East from the temple, in the Rue des Jardins, is the Palais de Justice, a large handsome building.