Bamban with Spirit Canute
In December 2005, the association Spirit Canute asked me to accompany comments ambulation, walking Chelus of the name of the lamp used by the weavers to work at night, through the Red Cross. An event attended by several associations.
Place Joannes Ambre We
December 8, 1852 ... Since March 24 the Red Cross is not a city but an independent district of Lyon ... as Vaise Guillotière as stretching from the marshes brotteaux lônes to the Fly and Gerland. La Croix-Rousse towels yet its bloody wounds caused by fighting between the heirs of Chalier, supporters of a republic in the way of virtuous Robespierre, the voracious, and the cast, June 15, 1849. 30 to 100 deaths. In the year 1852 the Croix Rousse think something else. They have been promised since last year, a Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, 5 meters high and covered with a thick layer of gold. A fairly simple work, without details that are not visible at that height. Gone responsible for the carving was Joseph Hughes Fabisch, he is a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It will become a specialist assigned to him by Virgin since later than that of Lourdes and La Salette. The work of bronze casting is given workshops and Constant Lanfrey Baud Lyonnais, installed on the side of Lyon, near the Saone. They must deliver on September 8, day the feast of the Virgin, but there were problems. The job is delayed, floods ... So it seems it will be December 8, a date that recalls the vow of Aldermen of 1643. It has provided a ring of rockets to the stars and blue and white crowd to Fourviere Lyonnais. Only here ... the sky ... it unleashes the storm and the lighting equipment can be installed. The city fathers cancel lighting, begin by emptying hot at the buffet prepared and discuss things and others ...
Think fenottes gons and below, are disappointed. They promised fireworks and nothing. That is all dark at the top of Fourviere not yet the basilica. We do not even see the Virgin plated with gold. And that show delivery on windows, then ten, then a hundred, then a thousand candles! Neighborhoods like the sumptuous buildings workshops Canuts ... they're everywhere! Two years before the dogma of the Immaculate Conception set for 8 December, and since Mary Lyon celebrate ... continues ...
Eglise Saint-Denis
We are in 1624. The Cross-Rousse and the people of Cook are pretty happy. Is that good and hoary fenottes gons, from the time they claimed a place of worship is now done. It's like today for meeting rooms, parks, parking ... see there is demand relentlessly, knowing how to be patient without being discouraged. That's what they did the Christians of the seventeenth century-Cook Red Cross. Reformed Augustinian monks who had been greeted in France by Louis XIII, they rolled up their sleeves of their dresses in homespun, spit in their hands and built a chapel and a convent. As it should allow time to time, 90 years later we spent the chapel before it sensibly, was not quite spiritual standards. You scratch a little to find it cotivet name we give it. Gone a smarter than others, or who had read the books of Bobichon father raises his hand: "belina sedans (in fact he has said that belin because from what I said women had little words at that time) he said thus Gone Smart "Belin, is the chapel dedicated to Saint-Denis, as he was one of the snowmen converted by St. Paul in Athens and as you follow me, the Bishop of Marquemont which hosted the Augustinians in Lyon, his nickname is Denis ... there will be all the joy and the time lord who runs is better to have sponsors to pitch! At the Revolution, Cross-Rousse are like the others, they write books about their kids while grumbling and in particular they ask that the chapel became the parish church under the patronage of St. Augustine church in memory of the monks. Is only a very rough and too dry, and it transforms St Augustine gives this place a lot more revolutionary name of "decadal temple." No success. So we try "Temple of Reason." Not better. Ultimately, we return to the patronage of St Denis church and its function. The silk workers who arrive at the Red Cross from 1810 offer a banner still visible today. Witness to the Cross-tolerance of Rousse, the Rotarian Lay is the former premises of the monastery for over 100 years!
Angle Grande Rue - Rue du Chariot d'Or
La Grande Rue, our oldest track, is lined on both sides of houses that are like so many witnesses of the history of the Red Cross. Its economic dynamism is not to prove and he was always so. Normal when you know the south, it ends with the Place de la Croix-Rousse which faces the access door in Lyon. She closed the door the night. Travelers, merchants must be able to eat and sleep while waiting to enter the city of Lyon. On either side of the High Street, inns, mechanics who repair the carts, wagons, stagecoaches who have suffered for long journeys. Some innkeepers are crafty and Lyon, they cling to their gates, a bundle of branches, thus signaling that it is possible to "rub" horses ... We designate these places hospital, where the kitchen is excellent ... the caps simply . Another advantage of the High Street Red Cross, everything is cheaper commercial operation ... ...?? Perhaps above all grants, fees are less important than in Lyon. Besides the bourgeois Lyon no mistake and comes on Sundays and holidays carillonnées slumming at the Red Cross and the flushing corgnolon shamelessly in the inn of the Golden Chariot for example .. . And it is the countryside around the High Street. In the West religious properties to the east, vineyards, gardens and some properties of Lyonnais. Their rural homes, their gazebos ... But in the early nineteenth century, everything will change ... we will see below ... follow me ...
Place Bertone
The former site of the Visitation and the first school ... weaving ... The silk weavers, such as printers can read and write, send their children at school. Have not they created their first newspaper, the Echo de la Fabrique in 1831 just weeks before their revolt. They read, discuss, write. Knowledge is a valuable asset for them. Establish the mutual, social stores that require numeracy, the sentence of the argument. Closer to home, another who lived Gone two steps from here, wrote of his cell, how a page is moving ... Marcel Bertone, a young Communist activist ... he speaks to his daughter ...
"My dear Helen. When you read this letter your little brain is likely to begin to understand life. You will regret not having your dad at your side and your mom. My Helen, you must know why one day your dad died at twenty-one years, why he sacrificed himself, why he pretended to leave you ... My little Helena, it's two hours, he must be ready. We must hurry ... Get to know why I fell. Get to know those around you and not judge people by what they say unto thee, but from what you see them do it ... Have the spirit of sacrifice for the noble and generous things. Do not let yourself be stopped by things that appear to convince you that your sacrifice is meaningless, useless ... If in life you do not know the wealth, console yourself by thinking that there are not sources of true happiness. Chosen for an honest worker husband. Choose-a generous, loving work and capable of love. My daughter, in thought, I embrace you. We do not grant us permission see us. Maybe this is it better? Goodbye Helen, your daddy died shouting "Vive la France"
Done at Prison Health, 17 April 1942, the date of my execution. Marcel Bertone.
Do not hang your head because your dad is shot. "
Angle rue du Chariot d'Or - rue Dumont D'Urville
The son of gold, silver and silk are woven exclusively in Lyon since 1536. In Lyon ... not the Red Cross. Near Saint-Jean, Saint-Georges, Saint Paul and the rise of Great Coast. Only here is not a gone-ty, Joseph Marie Jacquard Charles said about 1805, invented for weaving, a system of perforated cards providing mechanical lifting the son of chain according to the desired setting, the passage of weft son launched by the weaver using a shuttle. Us this improvement will result in the deletion of a job, the shooter's lakes, and will not be actually used as the Restoration. Still, if the silk workers want to be competitive they must use this new mechanism which is placed above the art. The workshops of Lyon have ceilings too low. It takes more than 4 meters. The upper slopes and the plateau east of the town of Croix-Rousse are not built. A West of religious property. This is not where we will build. By cons on the east, the garden, vines, small properties bourgeois houses campaigns, gazebos. You can buy and build very rapidly-building workshops. High windows, the windows of the tape to the light to be transmitted but the sun does not come son the bleached dyed. No balcony, with capitals or embellishment of stone ... it is an architecture factory. Inside the business but also an alcove to the foreman and his fenotte, the foreman is the weaver owns the means of production. Halfway up a floor for the journeymen, apprentices and the couple's children can sleep now ... ... the loft mezzanine.
Bellevue Place
1865 ... For 13 years the Red Cross is Lyonnaise name ... but a rat is not very convenient to go to Lyon ... is that the walls, more or less damaged by various revolts are still present. With the West Fort St John, on the banks of the Saone and the East, Fort St. Lawrence. We will demolish the walls and it will only leave the door Military Gymnasium, behind the post office, the field of Credit Lyonnais, and the two forts, including this one. Buildings constructed as workshops with the stone from the quarry Couzon, the same stone as the cross color orange color red ..., built in the late fifteenth century was ... northern town limit Caluire. She will give its name to the whole parish, commune, of the hill. The building workshops that we will follow up the place Colbert witnessed fights revolts ... for three days. Marceline Desbordes
Valmore, poetess was there ...
"When the blood flooded the town bewildered,
When the grave and lead every street sweeping
excited frightened sobs of alarm bells, fire red
When deployed with long arms, clutched in its nodes
children and fathers,
Pushed under their roofs by fire military
I was there! When breaking the vaults shaken
Pressing a foot cruel collapsed the roof,
Death disciplined and learned the carnage, loosely
choked the old man, young age,
And the mother in pain almost a virgin cradle
whose sides closed changed into the tomb,
I was there: I listened to the city die in flames
Do you think it's great all the people crying!
you know it's sad that a wounded city,
Appellant of his sisters distant pity
And sewing the shroud his livid half
Crushed galloping civil war! "
Place Colbert and the court Voracious
Death in the late nineteenth century, Nizier Puitspelu talks about Voracious. "It dates from 1846. No political purpose at the outset. Some workers saw that the silk weavers café de la Croix-Rousse could not bring himself to serve wine per liter, conspired to get this reform. They traveled in small groups in coffee shops and asked for a liter of wine. The boss would invariably reply: We do not serve as the bottle. "The silk workers to leave and go to a nearby repeat the experience. Hence the name Voracious.
This was the beginning of this society absolutely distinct from other labor organizations in the neighborhood, and mutual Ferrandiniers. The Voracious began to meet regularly with Ms. Marshall, at the corner of Austerlitz and Mail. Saturday and Monday. At the beginning of 1848 few canuts politicized decided to admit these meetings as Republicans. 300 to the fall of the July Monarchy.
On February 24 they go down to Bellecour without weapons, uniforms, to seize the position. Then they go to City Hall which they are registered. They attacked with stones. They become masters of the Town Hall. Then at the Prefecture (Place des Jacobins) All this in the evening. The next day they traveled to Fort St. Lawrence. They took up arms. Then they took the seminar down the hill St. Sebastian. Then the bastion in front of Mount Savage. (2 killed)
They take the bastion Bernardine, Fort Montessuy, Fort St Laurent, the Palais de Justice.
March 18 Arago comes to Lyon. He persuades them that it does not come to overthrow the Republic. Voracious withdraw the forts. Companies disappear.
Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse
Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse is ... first a strange noise in the night stalls worn by his watch. The mechanical gesture that installs the boards routinely raises the bigots vegetables, aligns the roundness of fruit in the bright light of a lamp exhausted. Silent tears, groaning in clarity hesitant am. Dreams have been traveling and still seek to pursue their brief existence. The people of gardening implements the setting for a morning that is still lurking in the wings. An oath
slap on the asphalt. A burst of laughter is followed by a word that comes to awaken the greetings which were late in coming.
The sun is no exception. As if only awaiting this signal, it tends to flatter the arm the verve of the people of the boulevard. The conversations are needed, moving from one bench to another, intersect, collide and bounce may not always rise.
slates are covered with figures, scales are recovering, a tomato patient who had slipped quietly to warm his old skin is unceremoniously evicted, a battalion of herbs distributes holiday dreams, the eyes of the first customers linger, hesitate, compare.
Thus the people Boulevard gradually comes together. Through successive steps, following a rite immutable, gardeners and barges transform the boulevard de la Croix-Rousse in a theater of life. Point of dialogues written chiseling replicas, no rehearsal setting the slow movement of some, the jerky gait of others and yet each has its place. While innovative while creating improbable scenes, dialogues beyond the dusty libraries, to poetry anthologies.
When the sun cleared the mist that veiled his eyes, leans a greedy on the terrace of a cloud, the movement grows and mixes in a mess reassuring people that life should be separated. The people
Boulevard knows rainy days. When the market stretches with barely shining on the asphalt. When the drops have fun bouncing on the canvas crying boy's cheek. The wind also invites himself in these days of mourning. He slaps the stall, leafless the plane, woos umbrellas in a cavalier, and goes laughing, pleased with himself The People
Boulevard splits, little by little. Some cauliflower reach out to the tired hands that threaten some hope. The misery does not ignore the market.
Place Carpet
Boulevard ... it is the vogue of the Red Cross ... it is difficult to specify the exact date of its creation, it can be at the time of construction by the Augustinians in 1624 the church dedicated to Bishop Denis Marquemont. But the St. Denis is celebrated on October 9, time of harvest brown and white wine in the first few fermented and the parishioners decided to celebrate the patron saint. Over time it became fashionable. When its configuration, this is a testimony of a former, written in the late nineteenth century.
"The whole main street was littered with makers of matefaims, merchants blocks Pear-thigh or brighton lady, chestnut and rissoleurs, because you know that the popularity of the Red Cross is in possession immemorial privilege of offering walkers the first chestnuts of the season and the first white wine - one, presumably, correcting each other. On the square, it was a mob that can not get an idea in mind that the Boulevard did not exist and that everything was massed on the market (small square of the Red Cross) and the narrow square which was the cross. A few shacks lost ventured past the entrance to the mat. Tradition, the circus was always up against the military gymnasium and Mr. Roque, "the king's physician, sat along the wall. "
Boulevard ... it ... funiculars strings and that of the cross package ... which gave us the Gros Caillou ... string Pâquet Cross and the last trip free man of Jean Moulin
June 21, 1943: Tony Graff brings Colonel Schwarzfeld the String Cross Pâquet where it finds Raymond Aubrac and Jean Moulin. Aubry, Hardy and Lassagne take the string at about 14 pm place Croix-Paquet. They arrive at the top station (now the small sports field at the corner of the Rue Vaucanson) and go up the Croix-Rousse. Aubry and Hardy take tram 33 towards Caluire. Andre Lassagne is by bicycle. Around 14 h 30, is next Jean Moulin and Aubrac to the string. At the terminus they wait half an hour the colonel and went to Schwarzfeld Dugoujon.
arrives a little later, the Gestapo ...
This completes the march of Chelus singing ... We will reach the Place de la Croix-Rousse and continue singing. Before I shut up before you sing the song that is so dear to us here, that of silk workers, one more thing. There have been some question and asked whether this was appropriate to use the word apparently Canute would be injurious to the master weavers. In 1832, the weavers were being posed the question and the Echo de la Fabrique organized a contest to find another name. But the mail received at the newspaper workers in silk, a letter should now settle once and for all this problem:
"I thought, sir, that was a joke that your open competition to find a euphonious name, you say, the general class of silk workers . I am sorry to see that you persist: why, ungrateful children, we blush name that our fathers left us! Why this susceptibility, rather, this prudery? So what dishonorable name weaver? No matter whether in jest or otherwise, that we give? By itself a word does nothing untoward. Call us
canuts and are citizens. Your
contest in my opinion is useless, and its purpose is idle, it is not to find a name for our profession that we must inquire, let me tell you, but improvements to our social state. I am told that in a city called Byzantium, which was besieged by a hostile army of monks who lived there seriously discussing a theological question, during which time the enemy took the town, and the monks went Bond continue their luminous discussion. Without going to a remote period, under the consulate of Napoleon, we discussed a lot about the relative importance of words citizens and Mr, and during this debate, the republic perished Would we, perchance, to our knowledge, in a similar position.
I therefore propose to close a discussion at least inadvertently, and seek instead to make on behalf of weaver all the glory he deserves, being worn by men honest and industrious.
entitled-you Journal of silk workers highly, we may laugh at first, then you get used to, that name will become as noble as that of banker, doctor, lawyer, etc.. And you have done an act of great wisdom. "
Labory.
Robert Luke 8 December 2005
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