Laënnec is a quarter of the 8th arrondissement of Lyon, in

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. It is served by the eponymous station of the Line D of the Lyon Metro, which was opened on 11 December 1992 and had 132,316 passengers per month in 2006.Laënnec statio
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(Retrieved May 22, 2009) Notable monuments of the quarter are the Grand

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of Lyon, located in the Boulevard Pinel, the

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, the Faculty of Dentistry and the Maison des jeunes et de la culture. The quarter is named after French physician and medical writer

René Laennec René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (; 17 February 1781 – 13 August 1826) was a French physician and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker ...

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8th arrondissement of Lyon Quarters of Lyon {{Lyon-geo-stub