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Lyon [c] (Franco-Provençal: Liyon) is the second-largest city in France by urban area and the third largest by city limits. [14] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km (173 mi) north of Marseille, 113 km (70 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, 58 km (36 mi) northeast of Saint-Étienne.
Nicole Gonthier, Lyon et ses pauvres au Moyen âge ; 1350-1500, Éditions l'Hermès, 1978, Lyon (ISBN 2-85934-057-2) Brigitte Beaujard, Topographie chrétienne des cités de la Gaule. Tome 4 : Province ecclésiastique de Lyon ; des origines au milieu du VIIIe siècle , De Boccard, 1985, Paris, 80p.
Provence [a] is a geographical ... It is joined by the river Saône at Lyon. ... It was shown to an audience in Paris on 28 December 1895, causing a sensation. [42]
The historic French province of Provence, located in the southeast corner of France between the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Rhône river and the upper reaches of the Durance river, was inhabited by Ligures beginning in Neolithic times; by the Celts from about 900 BC, and by Greek colonists from about 600 BC. [1]
In 1536 the court set up home in Lyon, whilst Francis I of France was gathering his troops to the south-east of Avignon to face Charles V's invasion of Provence. On 2 August that year the dauphin Francis played at a jeu de paume court "pré[s] d'Ainay" and, getting overheated, drank a glass of iced water which proved fatal (he died a few days ...
Les Toques Blanches Lyonnaises (lit. ' Lyon White Hats ') is an organization that was founded in 1936 by 7 renowned chefs from the Lyon area, including the founder and first president of the organization, Marius Vettard [].
To the west of Lyon, the livestock farms of the Monts du Lyonnais (Lyonnais mountains) are the source of the charcuterie and salt meat known as cochonnailles lyonnaises as well as variety of other pork products including rosette de Lyon, a cured sausage named for its pink colour and made from pork shoulder, [18] and jésus de Lyon, which is a ...
Lyon was the location of the meeting that resulted in 1601 in large parts of the Dukedom of Savoy being added to the French kingdom. Lyon lost the considerable degree of autonomy that it had hitherto enjoyed, but its commercial and industrial importance were unabated.