Equipped with a healthy climate and a fertile ground, Andrézieux-Bouthéon, in plain of Drill, has letters of nobility that many larger cities could envy to him. With regard to Andrézieux, its Latin name was written in varied forms, but quite recognizable and finds itself as of Xème century.
Indeed, an enumeration of the church of LYON going back to 984 makes it possible to find coast at coast Andrézieux and Saint-Cyprien in the form: "UNDRESIASUM and ECLESIA SANCTI CYPRIANI" Always with Xe century, one also finds in an act: "VILLA ANDRISIACI AND ECCLESIA SANCTI CYPRIANI". No doubt is thus allowed, Andrézieux was related to Saint-Cyprien during several centuries and became parish only in 1829.
In addition, in the 1206, named DURANZ of UNDRAISEU is pilot in an act passed with Saint-Rambert. In 1224 , one also finds in the same charter the name of ANDREZIEUX written in three different forms: "ANDRAYSEU, UNDRAYCEU and UNDRAICEU" and one note that the pronunciation starts to take form. Lastly, another form is raised in 1337: ANDREISACUS, Gallo-Roman name whose termination acus evokes the "villa of Andre", the word villa then meant field or rural exploitation with its farms, its grounds and the dwelling of the Master.
While excavating in the past, one finds a piece of Andrézieux called Make-Trawl-net which would defer us to the Ligure period before the invasion of the Gallic one. Indeed, according to the known words of the Ligure language, Fontchalon means "dwelling of the source". It is necessary to notice however that no discovery nor vestige going up at the time Ligurian or Gallo-Roman not having never been made, a broad doubt remains on this interpretation. With regard to Bouthéon, it is into 1183 that one finds the origin of Bouthéon where its church is mentioned among the possessions of the abbey of the Barbe island. In 1225 , the Priory of Saint-Rambert, who depended itself on the Barbe island, is a collator of the cure of Bouthéon. The seigniory of Bouthéon belonged of avord to the Counts of Drill and, in 1325, it belongs to Geudemard of Fay.
For the castle of Bouthéon, an American writer claimed that it was inhabited as of year 900, but one finds of it mention only in 1224 when it belonged to the family of princes de Bourbon, and it was Mathieu de Bourbon, known as "Bastard" the wire of Jean II, duke of Bourbon, which made rebuild the castle of Bouthéon about 1480. The castle of Bouthéon was then acquired by the family of Saint-Chamond who yielded it to a sior Gadagne, tycoon of the Florentino bank. At the time when the middle-class enriched by finance repurchased the seigniories with the ruined feudal nobility.
In 1614 , the "pastorale visit" announces that the parish church of the St. Lawrence de Bouthéon counts three hundred communicants. To the XIII E century, there was on the parish of Bouthéon a hermitage where the CAMADULES resided of 1614 to 1637.
In 1789 , Bouthéon is known as: "Village, parish, castle and seigniory in Drill, archiprêtré of Saint-Etienne, seneschalsy of Montbrison, the prior of Saint-Rambert-en-Forez indicates the cure". An old vault, which dated from the XII E century, was replaced in 1859 by the current church of BOUTHEON which was finished in 1861. It is into 1880 that this church was supplemented of a bell-tower and two side chapels. The elementary school of Bouthéon goes back to 1910; they is installed in the same building that the Town hall and comprises two classes of boys. The school of girls was built in 1958 and comprises two classes. The current water supply network was established in 1935 by the Municipality IN FRONT OF and the system sewerage carried out in 1934 pennies the Lornage-hean Municipality. The communal grounds were assigned to aviation in 1911 and were used like prison camp during the war 14-18. Then, in 1931, rented at the town of Saint-Etienne like airfield.
In 1680 , Andrézieux, which had only one inhabitant hundred depending on Saint-Cyprien, was attached to the parish of Bouthéon, then again in the same year with Saint-Cyprien. With the Revolution, whereas the parishes are used as framework with the communes, Andrézieux still formed part of Saint-Cyprien. But following a royal decree dating from September 24, 1823, Andrézieux was again attached to Bouthéon. Andrézieux was perpetually balloté between the two villages close to Saint-Cyprien and Bouthéon. Andrézieux was finally set up in commune by royal decree of March 11, 1830. Mr. GIRINON Marcellin was the first Mayor and named as well as the City council men by prefectoral decree. They lent oath in these terms: "I swear fidelity with the King, the constitutional Charter and the laws of the kingdom".
But already, in 1825 , the general Council of the Loire had decided the construction of the royal road of Roanne to the Rhone, passing by Feurs, Andrézieux, Saint-Etienne, Annonay and Tournon, as well as the road of Montbrison (which was then Préfecture of the Loire) with junction with the royal road in Goyonnière. Andrézieux became, so the point of transit of theSaint-Etienne-Roanne directions and Saint-Etienne-Montbrison. Since 1750 approximately, coals of Saint-Etienne and Roche it - Molière (the coal mines of the Loire then constituted the principal richness of the department) transported by oxcarts took the road of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Genest-Lerpt and Saint-Just to be embarked with the profit of Andrézieux. Storerooms of coals were thus built in Andrézieux and the coal was directed on Roanne and beyond by boats on the Loire.
These boats, facts of rough boards, measured 24 meters length, 3 m 65 of width and 1 m 20 of depth, they étaitent built between Saint-Just and Saint-Rambert, and their place of construction was called "the boats". They were charged in Andrézieux, become port, each of 25 tons of coal and arrived at destination were demolished and drink it sold on the spot.
However, since 1820, engineers BEAUNIER and of WELSHMAN sought a means partique to transport the coal by overland route. It is them which imported of England in France the transport by rail. This new method was for the first time applied in France to theSaint-Etienne-Andrézieux section, and the concession was granted on February 26, 1823. The line left the bridge of the Ass to Saint-Etienne (commemorative plate of the old station street of Montat), it followed the valley of Furant and ended in Andrézieux, with the low ways.
This first railroad, whose rails were called then "bars", the coaches of the "carriages" and trains of the "convoys", was opened with the exploitation on June 30, 1827 . "stone dice" surmounted by a bearing, supported the cast iron rails, the carriages were out of wood with wheels out of cast iron and the convoys were drawn by horses. Four relays of horses were created: in Andrézieux, Rejaillère, Mount-Ravel and Mottetières (old slaughter-houses of Saint-Etienne).
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