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Forez (fôrā`), hilly agricultural region, E central France, in the Massif Central Massif Central (mäsēf` säNträl`) [Fr.,=central highlands], great mountainous plateau, c.
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, mostly in Loire dept. and partially in Puy-de-Dôme dept. Roanne Roanne (rôän`), town (1990 pop. 42,848), Loire dept., E central France, on the Loire River.
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 is the chief town. The region was known as Pagus Forensis under the Carolingians. In the 10th cent. it was an earldom dependent on Burgundy. Annexed to the French crown lands in 1527, it was incorporated into Lyonnais prov.


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In the French regions of the Bourbonnais, Forez and Beaujolais together only ten letters of ennoblement have been found.
But only in Forez did this ancient religion survive into the fifth century.
Since by 1943 the Gestapo considered Mauriac (1885-1970) one of its principal enemies among France's intellectual class, he used the pseudonym of Forez.
 
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