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July: 1903 Tour de France passes through Lyon. Revue musicale de Lyon begins publication. [32] 1905 Orchestre National de Lyon established. Édouard Herriot becomes mayor. [1] 1906 - Population: 430,186 city; 472,114 commune. [2] [24] 1908 - Gare des Brotteaux opens. 1911 - Population: 523,796. [33] 1912 - 7th arrondissement of Lyon created ...
List of books about the history of Lyon. Fédou, René (2006). Les papes du moyen âge à Lyon: De Urbain II à Jean XXII (1095-1316) (in French). Lyon: Editions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire. p. 127. ISBN 2-84147-168-3. Pelletier, André; Rossiaud, Jacques; Bayard, Françoise; Cayez, Pierre (2007). Histoire de Lyon des origines à nos jours ...
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.
André Pelletier, Histoire de Lyon ; De la capitale des Gaules à la métropole européenne ; De -10 000 à + 2007., Éditions lyonnaises d'Arts et d'Histoire, 2007, Lyon, 143p. (ISBN 978-2-84147-188-1) Jean-Pierre Gutton, Histoire de Lyon illustrée, Le Pérégrinateur Éditeur, 2008, Toulouse (ISBN 2-910352-48 X)
Designed as a Catholic and popular newspaper at a time when conservative press outlets were supported by the diocese of Lyon [1] [2], Le Nouvelliste de Lyon was a large-format daily newspaper priced at one sou (five centimes). It was a major competitor to the newspaper Le Progrès and circulated in approximately 15 départements.
It is composed of the Musée d'Histoire de Lyon (Museum of Lyon History) and the Musée des Marionnettes du monde (World Puppet Museum). The building was classified as a historic monument in 1920. It was acquired by the city of Lyon between 1902, and 1941. [ 1 ]
The Place des Terreaux with the Hôtel de Ville and Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon after the redevelopment of the square in the 1990s by Daniel Buren and Christian Drevet. The Place des Terreaux (French pronunciation: [plas de tɛʁo] ⓘ) is a square located in the centre of Lyon, France, on the Presqu'île between the Rhône and the Saône rivers, at the foot of the hill of La Croix-Rousse in ...
Saint-Jean quarter, part of the Vieux Lyon, with the Saint-Jean cathedral as seen from the montée des Chazeaux. Rue de Gadagne in the heart of the Vieux Lyon. Vieux Lyon ([vjø ljɔ̃], English: Old Lyon) is the largest Renaissance district of Lyon. In 1964, Vieux-Lyon, the city's oldest district, became the first site in France to be ...