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The Avenue Berthelot is a street in the 7th and 8th arrondissements of Lyon. In an east-west axis, it connects the Gallieni Bridge to the Place du 11-Novembre 1918, it is then extended by the Avenue Jean Mermoz until the A43 autoroute. The avenue goes through La Guillotière and Le Bachut quarters.
During the Second World War, the square of Bachut was extended and the avenue Berthelot enlarged. [1] At the time, J.H. Lambert planned for the post-war the construction of 6,840 housing units focused on the avenue Berthelot extended (current avenue Jean Mermoz), but these projects were eventually cancelled. In 1959, the 8th quarter was created.
La Rue du Bœuf. 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
The 8th arrondissement of Lyon(French: ... Avenue Berthelot; Boulevard des États-Unis; ... Place du 7 novembre;
The street was opened in 1835. [1] Until 1855, the first part of the street, at north of the Cours Franklin Roosevelt (then named Cours Morand), was called Rue de Grammond, as tribute to Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen. [2] It was then named Rue des Martyrs because people were slaughtered in the street in 1793. [3]
Further in the north, the facade of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre (now Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon), with a grand entrance between two columns, which was formerly on the Rue de Clermont, dating from the seventeenth century. The street is known for its numerous luxury shops like Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Christian Dior, Longchamp, Hermes...
In 1965, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Liberation, former resistance fighters and deportees from Lyon formed an association with a view to creating a museum of the Second World War, devoted more particularly to the resistance and the deportation of resistance fighters. A first museum opened its doors on May 8, 1967.
Cinema Pathé surmounted by a belfry with a rooster at the top, a rare example of Art Deco style in Lyon; The Palais du Commerce or Palais de la Bourse, headquarters of Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Lyon and the Bourse de Lyon, with the nearby Church of St. Bonaventure (Place des Cordeliers) The Nouveau Grand Bazar, occupied by shops.