A textile factory quintupled the population of this village

Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost is a small village that saw its demographics explode in a few years. Between 1926 and 1931, the establishment of new textile industries in the Lyon region, notably with the creation of the Société lyonnaise de soie artificielle in 1929, multiplied its number of inhabitants by five. This massive industrialization met an immense need for manual labor, durably transforming the municipality.