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Boulevard De La Croix-Rousse
is a boulevard that marks the border between the 1st and the 4th arrondissements of Lyon, in the neighborhood Croix-Rousse. Location The boulevard runs east–west and is the border between the 1st and 4th arrondissements and the neighborhoods and Plateau de la Croix-Rousse. History The Croix-Rousse ramparts were reconstructed in 1834 on the remains of 16th century ramparts, which had been demolished during the revolt of Lyon against the National Convention in 1793. In 1852 when Croix-Rousse became a quarter of Lyon the ramparts were destroyed to facilitate the integration of the new quarter. was constructed on the former site of these fortifications in 1865. A town hall was built and trees were planted along the boulevard at this time. The Croix-Rousse Market and the Vogue fair (formerly the Parish Festival of the church of Saint-Denis) began to take place on the boulevard soon after its construction. From 1863 to 1914, the boulevard functioned as a single-lane road ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vogue Des Marrons
Vogue may refer to: Business * ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine ** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine ** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine ** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine ** ''Vogue China'', a Chinese fashion magazine ** '' Vogue France'', a French fashion magazine ** ''Vogue Greece'', a Greek fashion magazine ** ''Vogue India'', an Indian fashion magazine ** ''Vogue Italia'', an Italian fashion magazine ** ''Vogue Mexico & Latin America'', a Latin American fashion magazine ** '' Vogue Poland'', a Polish fashion magazine * Vogue Records, a short-lived American 1940s label * Disques Vogue, a French jazz record company * Singer Vogue, two generations of British cars manufactured by Singer * Vogue Tyre, a wheel manufacturer based in Chicago * The Vogue Theater, Chula Vista, California, United States * Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada * Vogue Theatre - see List of theatres in Louisville, Kentucky * Vogue (cigar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolt Of Lyon Against The National Convention
The revolt of Lyon against the National Convention was a counter-revolutionary movement in the city of Lyon during the time of the French Revolution. It was a revolt of moderates against the more radical National Convention, the third government during the French Revolution. It broke out in June 1793 and was put down in October of the same year, after government forces had besieged the city. The city confronts economic crisis In 1789 Lyon was the only city in France other than Paris with a population above 100,000. The city was a regional focus for banking, commerce and manufacturing. In terms of employment its leading industry was silk weaving, which directly supported a third of the population. The silk industry in 1789 was in crisis, reflecting the wider economic crisis afflicting France at that time. The city was visited by the keen eyed English documentary writer Arthur Young in December of that year: he estimated that 20,000 people were living from charity and starving.Jean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Streets And Squares In Lyon
This article lists the main streets and squares in Lyon, France. A * Place Ambroise-Courtois * Place Ampère * Rue Antoine Sallès * Cours Albert Thomas * Rue de l'Arbre-Sec * Rue des Archers * Passage de l'Argue * Rue Armand Calliat, named for Thomas-Joseph Armand-Calliat, goldsmith, who died in Lyon in 1901. * Place d'Arsonval * Rue d'Austerlitz B * Rue du Bât-d'Argent * Boulevard des Belges * Place Bellecour * Place Benoît-Crépu * Rue du Sergent Blandan * Rue Bichat * Rue Bossuet * Rue des Bouquetiers * Rue de la Bourse * Boulevard des Brotteaux * Rue de Brest * Rue Burdeau * Rue du Bœuf * Rue Bugeaud * Avenue Berthelot C * Boulevard des Canuts * Rue des Capucins * Montée des Carmélites * Place Carnot * Rue du Président Carnot * Place des Célestins * Cours Charlemagne * Rue des Chartreux * Rue Chevreul * Rue Claudia * Rue Constantine * Rue de Créqui * Place Croix-Paquet * Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse * Grande rue de la Croix-Rousse * Place de la Croix-Rousse D * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vélo'v
Vélo'v is a bicycle sharing system run by the city of Lyon, France, in conjunction with the advertising company JCDecaux. It has been the pioneer of smart bicycle-sharing systems, previous systems being more ad hoc and run similar to a charity. The relationship with JCDecaux allows the city to provide the service on a cost neutral basis for the city, and at a very low cost to users, in return for providing exclusive advertising access on bus shelters and the like. The primary aim is to reduce vehicle traffic within the city. The scheme also aims to reduce pollution, create a convivial atmosphere within the city, and encourage the health benefits of increased activity. Its name is a portmanteau of French ''vélo'' ('' bike'') and English ''love''. The first bicycle sharing system to open in France, after the pioneering 1974 scheme in La Rochelle, its thundering success inspired similar systems in major French and European cities, including Paris' Velib' in 2007. With the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gros Caillou
Gros Caillou (literally "big pebble") is a landmark of the French city of Lyon in the neighborhood Croix-Rousse. The rock's mineralogical composition suggests it is a glacial erratic, and would have been transported from the nearby Alps by slowly moving glaciers. Localization Originally, Gros Caillou was located at the end of Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse, constructed in 1865, and the boundary between the 1st arrondissement (Croix-Rousse hill) and the 4th arrondissement (Croix-Rousse plateau). Until it was annexed in 1852, the Croix-Rousse Plateau was a separate city. Thus, the location of Gros Caillou at that intersection became a unifying symbol. At the beginning of the 21st century, an underground parking lot and green area took over this area and Gros Caillou was relocated 30m into the 1st arrondissement. History Gros Caillou is a metamorphic Triassic quartzite, typical of the alpine regions of Haute-Maurienne and Haute Tarentaise. It is rock that was displaced by glaci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pétanque
Pétanque (, ; oc, petanca, , also or ) is a sport that falls into the category of boules sports, along with raffa, bocce, boule lyonnaise, lawn bowls, and crown green bowling. In all of these sports, players or teams play their boules/balls towards a target ball. In pétanque the objective is to score points by having boules closer to the target than the opponent after all boules have been thrown. This is achieved by throwing or rolling boules closer to the small target ball, officially called a ''jack'' ''(fr: cochonnet)'', or by hitting the opponents' boules away from the target, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground. The game is normally and best played on hard dirt or gravel. It can be played in public areas in parks or in dedicated facilities called ''boulodromes''. The current form of the game was codified in 1907 or 1910 in La Ciotat, in Provence, France. The French name ''pétanque'' (borrowed into English, with or without the acute accent) c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Ferry
Jules François Camille Ferry (; 5 April 183217 March 1893) was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion. Under the Third Republic, Ferry made primary education free and compulsory through several new laws. However, he was forced to resign following the Sino-French War in 1885 due to his unpopularity and public opinion against the war. Biography Early life and family Ferry was born Saint-Dié, in the Vosges department, to Charles-Édouard Ferry, a lawyer from a family that had established itself in Saint-Dié as bellmakers, and Adélaïde Jamelet. His paternal grandfather, François-Joseph Ferry, was mayor of Saint-Dié through the Consulate and the First Empire. He studied law, and was called to the bar at Paris in 1854, but soon went into politics, contributing to various newspape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funiculars Of Lyon
The Funiculars of Lyon (Funiculaires de Lyon) is a network of funicular railways in Lyon, France. Of the five lines once in existence, only the two routes on the Fourvière hill remain in operation, with the rest of the network now either closed, converted to road vehicle use, or integrated within the Lyon underground system. History No fewer than five funicular lines, nicknamed ''ficelles'' ("threads") were built. *The first line opened in 1862 and linked Rue Terme and Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse. The funicular was closed and converted to a road tunnel in 1968. *The second line opened in 1891 and served the Butte de la Croix Rousse. The line was converted into a rack railway in 1972 and rebuilt and extended at both ends to become Line C of the Lyon Metro in 1978. *The third line opened in 1878 linking Saint-Jean to Saint-Just with an intermediate station at Minimes, climbing the Fourvière hill. The line was converted to a rack railway in 1901 and back to a funicular in 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrondissements Of Lyon
The nine arrondissements of Lyon are the administrative divisions of the City of Lyon. Unlike the spiral pattern of the arrondissements of Paris, or the meandering pattern of those in Marseille, the layout in Lyon is more idiosyncratic. This is for historical reasons: following the annexation of the communes of , La Croix-Rousse and Vaise in 1852, the newly enlarged city was divided into 5 arrondissements, which originally spiralled out anticlockwise from the ''Hôtel de Ville'' ( Town Hall); however, as the city's population expanded, it became necessary to split certain arrondissements, giving rise to today's seemingly random pattern. History Arrondissements of Lyon in 1852 * 1st arrondissement: as today (Terreaux, Martinière/St-Vincent, Pentes de la Croix-Rousse) *2nd arrondissement: as today (Cordeliers, Bellecour, Ainay, Perrache, Confluent) *3rd arrondissement: former commune of La Guillotière (all of the Left Bank of the Rhône) *4th arrondissement: as today (former c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boulevard
A boulevard is a type of broad avenue planted with rows of trees, or in parts of North America, any urban highway. Boulevards were originally circumferential roads following the line of former city walls. In American usage, boulevards may be wide, multi-lane arterial thoroughfares, often divided with a central median, and perhaps with side-streets along each side designed as slow travel and parking lanes and for bicycle and pedestrian usage, often with an above-average quality of landscaping and scenery. Etymology The word ''boulevard'' is borrowed from French. In French, it originally meant the flat surface of a rampart, and later a promenade taking the place of a demolished fortification. It is a borrowing from the Dutch word ' 'bulwark'. Usage world-wide Asia Cambodia Phnom Penh has numerous boulevards scattered throughout the city. Norodom Boulevard, Monivong Boulevard, Sihanouk Boulevard, and Kampuchea Krom Boulevard are the most famous. India *Bengaluru's M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 hill, part of the 4th arrondissement). This zone is served by Metro line . With 18th century architecture, including unique dwellings for labourers, La Croix-Rousse was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1998 (along with other districts in Lyon) to protect Lyon's long history as an important European city. Names and etymology The name "La Croix-Rousse" ('the russet/red cross') comes from a reddish-brown stone cross erected there in the 16th century. In Lyon, La Croix-Rousse is nicknamed ''la colline qui travaille'' ('the hill that works') in contrast to the better-known hill to the southwest, Fourvière, which is known as ''la colline qui prie'' ('the hill that prays'). History The district started developing in the 18th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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