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The Château de Rochetaillée is a ruined feudal castle in the city of Saint-Étienne in the Loire département of France.The castle's construction dates from the 12th century, with additional work in the 16th century.It has been listed since 1930 as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture.

The canton of Saint-Genest-Malifaux is a French former administrative division located in the department of Loire and the Rhône-Alpes region. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It consisted of 8 communes, which joined the canton of Le Pilat in 2015. It had 8,681 inhabitants (2012).The canton comprised the following communes:

Saint-Genest-Malifaux (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒənɛ malifo]) is a small town in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of central France. Administratively it is designated a commune within the department of Loire.

Tarentaise (French pronunciation: [taʁɑ̃tɛz]) is a commune in the Loire department in central France.

The École nationale d'ingénieurs de Saint-Étienne (ÉNISE; National Engineering School of Saint-Étienne) is a French grande école which offers five-year course in engineering after the baccalauréat, in the fields of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Sensory Engineering. The school delivers the Diplôme d'Ingénieur in Mechanical Engineering and in Civil Engineering.ÉNISE is part of the "Groupe des Ecoles Nationales d'Ingénieurs", Groupe ENI - French for the Group of National Engineering Schools, which is a network of 4 French public engineering schools.It is also part of the University of Lyon, a state-run Higher Education & Research (HE & R) consortium - a federation of 18 Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) that federate their doctoral schools under one doctoral college representing a total of 120 000 students, 11 500 research lecturers and 230 public laboratories.

The Diocese of Saint-Étienne (Latin: Dioecesis Sancti Stephani; French: Diocèse de Saint-Étienne) is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in France, based in the city of Saint-Étienne in the Loire department. It was established on 26 December 1970 out of the Archdiocese of Lyon-Vienne and consists of the arrondissements of Saint-Étienne and Montbrison, thus constituting the greater part of the department of the Loire. The seat of the bishop is Saint-Étienne Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Charles Borromeo (French: Cathédrale Saint-Charles-de-Borromé de Saint-Étienne).

The canton of Saint-Étienne-6 is an administrative division of the Loire department, in eastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Étienne.It consists of the following communes: Saint-Étienne (partly)

École nationale supérieure des mines de Saint-Étienne, also called École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (literally meaning "Saint-Étienne school of mines") or simply Mines Saint-Étienne and commonly abbreviated EMSE is a prestigious French graduate engineering school (grandes écoles) training engineers and carrying out industry-oriented research. Its function is to support the development of its students and of companies through a range of courses and fields of research, from the initial training of generalist engineers ingénieurs civils des mines, to PhD teaching; from material sciences to micro-electronics via process engineering, mechanics, the environment, civil engineering, finance, computer science and health engineering.

The Col de la République or Col de Grand Bois (1,161 m (3,809 ft)) is a mountain pass in the Pilat massif within the Pilat Regional Natural Park in the Loire department of the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France. Located on the D1082 (ex-RN 82 ) in the commune of Saint-Genest-Malifaux, it connects Saint-Étienne with Annonay in the Rhône valley. The road was constructed in 1830 and the col has an altitude of 1,161 metres. It was the first climb on the first Tour de France in 1903, but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904 that involved fighting and officials firing gunshot warnings. It has been part of the route on 13 occasions.

Jean Monnet University (French: Université Jean Monnet or Université de Saint-Étienne) is a public research university based in Saint-Étienne, France. It is under the Academy of Lyon and belongs to the administrative entity denominated University of Lyon, which gathers different schools in Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ bɔnfɔ̃]) is a commune in the Loire department in central France.

The canton of Saint-Étienne-1 is an administrative division of the Loire department, in eastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Saint-Étienne.It consists of the following communes: Saint-Étienne (partly)