The Rue Dumenge is a

street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...

located in the

4th arrondissement of Lyon The 4th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon. History The 4th arrondissement of Lyon was created on 24 March 1852 (date of creation of the first five arrondissements), with the same borders of the old town ...

, in the quarter of

La Croix-Rousse La Croix-Rousse is a hill high in the city of Lyon, France, as well as the name of a neighborhood located on this hill. The neighborhood is divided into les pentes (slopes, belonging to the city's 1st arrondissement) and le plateau (atop the hil ...

. It begins on the rue du Mail, crosses the rue du Pavillon and the rue de Belfort and ends on the rue Dumont-d'Urville. The street is served by a metro station of the line C and a velo'v station.

History

In the early nineteenth century, Pierre-Gabriel Dumenge owned some lands in La Croix-Rousse. He yielded to the city of Lyon some of them which were necessary to align the street. In 1812, on a two-acre field, he built an estate called Clos Dumenge, which provided building-workshops specially designed for weavers (the

canuts The canuts () were Lyonnais silk workers, often working on Jacquard looms. They were primarily found in the Croix-Rousse neighbourhood of Lyon in the 19th century. Although the term generally refers to Lyonnais silk workers, silk workers in th ...

). They are particularly bright and high in order to house the looms. Dumenge took the opportunity to give his name to one of the streets bordering the housing estate (see the municipal council of 21 September 1817). The rue Sainte-Rose (called after the name of the daughter of the man who had opened the street) and rue Dumenge were renamed the rue de l'Émancipation in 1849, then rue de la Démocratie in 1850, but both streets resumed their former name in 1851. Finally in 1891, the rue Sainte-Rose was incorporated into the rue Dumenge. As memory of the canut past of the street, a shuttle of weaving is represented on the gate at No. 10. Adèle Bouvier, grandmother of French President

Nicolas Sarkozy Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa (; ; born 28 January 1955) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2007 to 2012. Born in Paris, he is of Hungarian, Greek Jewish, and French origin. Mayor of Neuilly-sur-Se ...

, was born at No. 2 rue Dumenge, on 5 March 1891.

Architecture and associations

In the southern side, a beautiful stone archway can be seen, and after the rue du Pavillon, a small one-story house and a workshop with balustrades, stairs and a glass roof. In the northern side, there is an alignment of three or four-floor facades of residential buildings, mainly canut-styled. The street ends with a set of small houses, and the corner of the rue Dumont-d'Urville is adorned with a little man in its

niche Niche may refer to: Science *Developmental niche, a concept for understanding the cultural context of child development *Ecological niche, a term describing the relational position of an organism's species *Niche differentiation, in ecology, the ...

. There are few restaurants as well as workshops which house several associations about environment, including

Greenpeace Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...

France (Lyon group), Ecologist magazine S!lence, the network Sortir du Nucleaire, Salon Primrose, and others.

References

{{reflist 4th arrondissement of Lyon Dumenge