For economy?
On the plate round the fountain in the Place Louis Pradel, is writing a verse: "Let my love thinking about madness," but it is not signed! Is it because everyone is supposed to know by heart the works of Louise Labe or an economy measure? And why did not put the title of the sonnet ... for shame? It is true that: "Fuck m'encor, Rebais and fuck me" would have thrilled more than one going Lyonnais at the Opera or the Hotel de Ville!
Royal Wedding
Often the visitor who looks up at the front of City Hall wonders who this man is proud of his horse. Once completed, it is Henry IV, he can not help asking why the CL honors, boiled chicken not within the culinary specialties of gons. Is that December 17, 1601 he married the knot with Marie de Medici in the Cathedral of St. John. Lyon is well worth a second marriage ...
The fresco of the Labour Exchange
walls painted are fashionable and nobody complains. There is a much older fresco on the facade of the Labour Exchange. This mosaic of 172 sqm is due to Fargeot Ferdinand who had been imposed a theme: "Life improvement through labor." Characters representatives of workers alongside six personalities. Three architects, Meysson, Gabriel Baud and Rambaud, Dr. Sahuc, founder of the cooperative "Future" and Edouard Herriot, Mayor of Lyon.
Spelling?
On set-Rousse cross a street name that is often subject to controversy. Indeed Street Nights has an S! Some guides ensure that it is a misspelling, and suspecting the City employees to be bad in French. Well they are right because it tries to evoke the battle of 18 December 1870 Nuits-Saint-Georges where so Lyonnais died. This tragedy sparked a riot at the Croix-Rousse. The author
grids Park
The monumental gate of Parc de la Tete d'Or is the admiration of all. It is also reminiscent of the gates of the Place Stanislas in Nancy that they are the work of Jean Lamour. In Lyon it is the locksmith Art Bernard Joseph who realized in 1901. What good is gone the very example of successful rehabilitation. In fact he left prison for anarchist activities when he was assigned to work for a considerable price: 104 800 gold francs!
The first cooperative Lyon
In 95 of the rise of the Great Coast plaque recalls that here was founded in 1835 the first consumer cooperative: "Trade and Social Truthful. Inspired by the ideas of Fourier she proves how silk weavers did not hesitate to imagine a society based on solidarity and fraternity. A small monument in the garden of plants that dream recalls and honors the two creators, Joseph Michel and Reynier Derrion.
Pierre Poivre: a puzzle to biographers
A street in the 1st district pays tribute to Pierre Poivre (1719-1786), traveler, naturalist and talented economist. It is a puzzle to biographers. In fact we wrote that it was he who gave his name to this spice, it is not. The "piper aromaticus" was long known. On the other hand it makes him die in Saint-Romain-de-Couzon while ensuring that the doctor died Beauvisage Place Louis-le-Grand, today Place Bellecour.
mâchon Awesome! The first
mâchon Friends of Guignol was held at the brewery Kleber, Place de la Comedie February 24, 1914, 7 ½ hours in the evening. They are sixty gons to sit down for a meal that is breathtaking. Discerned: "packages rind, Graton, bone china, rouelle veal, au gratin potatoes, turkey with chestnuts, salad donkey snout and teeth of lion" of z'harengs " bugnes, blue cheese, Rigot, rougerets, dessert and Beaujolais ... pots ... an average of three pots per person!
The hill August 3
The late Rene Dejean Fourviere designated as the three hill 8. On September 8, 1643 date the head of the Diocese blessed the city and the mayor donated a shield. On December 8, 1852 when residents began spontaneously lanterns in the windows in honor of the statue of the Virgin and October 8, 1870 which reiterates the promise to build a large chapel if the Prussians did not come to Lyon. A wish fulfilled and a promise kept: the basilica.
Currencies Lyon
The most famous motto is probably: "Avant! Avant! Lion Melhor! "It is the cry uttered by traders and craftsmen, the bourgeoisie of the left bank, struggling against the clergy during the rebeyne 1269. The other motto: "Follow the Lion bites that point if I Poingt when the enemy is an excerpt from a poem written by Clement Marot in 1536 in which he also mentions the" Lion softer than a hundred maidens. "
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