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The Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon is a library in Lyon, France. In addition to providing standard library services it also hosts a variety of special collections, in particular in the fields of photography, Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes département , old books, textiles, music, contemporary art and literature.
Bibliographie de la ville de Lyon (in French). L. Perrin. (+ contents) Monfalcon, Jean-Baptiste (1860), "Bibliographie Lyonnaise", Catalogue des bibliotheques du palais des arts (in French) Sébastien Charléty [in French] (1903). Bibliographie critique de l'histoire de Lyon, depuis 1789 jusqu'à nos jours. Annales de l'universite de Lyon (in ...
Lyon [c] (Franco-Provençal: Liyon) is the second-largest city in France by urban area and the third largest by city limits. [14] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
The Hôtel de Ville (French pronunciation: [otɛl də vil] ⓘ, City Hall) is the city hall of Lyon, France, and one of the largest historic buildings in the city. The building is located between the Place des Terreaux and the Place de la Comédie, in front of the Opéra Nouvel. It was designated a monument historique by the French government ...
The Urban Community of Lyon (French: Communauté urbaine de Lyon), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former acronym COURLY, is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Lyon and some of its suburbs. It was created in January 1969. [1] The Metropolis of Lyon replaced the Urban Community on 1 January 2015.
Le Lyon de nos Pères: Dessins et eaux-fortes de J. Drevet (in French). Bernoux et Cumin. pp. 159– 160. Blanc, Marius (1898). La vie et le culte de saint Clair: abbé de Saint-Marcel de Vienne (en Dauphiné) (in French). Vol. 2. Imprimerie J. Mazeyrie. pp. 40– 50. Aynard, Théodore (1883). Histoire du quai Saint-Clair en la ville de Lyon ...
The 1st is directly to the north of the 2nd and covers part of the city centre (including the Hôtel de Ville) and the slopes (pentes) of La Croix-Rousse, up to the Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse. To the north of the boulevard is the 4th arrondissement, which covers the Plateau de la Croix-Rousse, up to its boundary with Cuire in the commune of ...
Ancient arms of Lyons. The birth of heraldry and the formation of the first coats of arms as a distinctive mark of individuals (noble or not) and the organizations of cities or corporations only dates from the 12th century, but one can find, however, traces of a symbol of the city's arms called De geules au chef de Bourgogne, that is, a red shield surmounted by a haorizontal band with the ...