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43 unusual facts about Lyon


Appenzell District

Later Appenzell began to establish independent foreign trade relations (1494 Venice, 1497 Constance, about 1499 Lyon, 1529 Frankfurt am Main).

Asterix and the Banquet

The phrase: "Je vous promets qu'on n'a pas fini d'en parler de l'affaire du courrier de Lugdunum !" is a reference to the trial "le courrier de Lyon", where an innocent one was sentenced for the murder of postmen and the theft of their mail in 1796.

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

Had one son and two daughters, the eldest of whom, Elisabeth (d. 1736 at Lyon) married Henry Temple, son of the 1st Viscount Palmerston.

Clan Lyon

1865–1904 – Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Cuthbert Cary-Elwes

He followed the regular course of philosophical studies at St Mary’s Hall, Stonyhurst (181890-1893) and Theology with the French Jesuits, first at Jersey and then Lyons (1897–1901).

David Lyon

David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), brother of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother

Eritherium

The holotype (specimen number MNHN PM69) is now in the Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet in Lyon and includes an upper jaw (with approaches of the zygomatic bone and two maxillary branches, each of the two posterior premolars (P3 and 4) and three molars (M1-3)).

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne (born 1688 in Lyon, died 1771 in Paris) was a French art critic of the 19th century.

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers (1668, Lyon – 1741, Paris) was a French engraver best known for his miniature portraits of his contemporaries.

France 3 Alpes

The service is also one of 2 services to be broadcast to the people living in the region, the other being France 3 Rhône-Alpes, which is broadcast from Lyon.

George Calombaris

He also entered the Bocuse d'Or culinary grand prix in Lyon, France, achieving a best result ever for an Australian representative.

Granville Penn

A supporter of the Odiham Society, he met Charles Benoît Vial de Sainbel who was in England for the second time to try to set up a veterinary school, such as existed at Lyon; and whose profile was raised when he was asked to dissect the famous racehorse Eclipse.

Gustave Paul Cluseret

On the proclamation of the Third Republic in 1871 he set to work to organize the social revolution, first at Lyon and afterwards at Marseilles.

Impur II

It was composed in 1996 by Frith and performed in December 1997 in RamDam in Lyon, France by students and teachers from L’Ecole Nationale de Musique, Villeurbanne.

Jean de Pauly

Jean de Pauly (Albania, 1860 – Lyon, 1903) was the translator of French editions of the portions of the Talmud and the first complete translation of the Zohar .

Jean-Claude Colin

At the end of the summer of 1813 Jean-Claude set off for the major seminary of Saint Irenaeus at Lyon for the final years of preparation for the priesthood.

Jean-Pascal Beintus

In 1996 Kent Nagano, then music director of the Opéra de Lyon, recognized Jean-Pascal Beintus' talents as composer and began to commission works from him.

Joseph Gelineau

Having entered the Society of Jesus in 1941, Gelineau studied theology at a Catholic seminary in Lyon and music in Paris.

Joseph Merklin

After the war ended, he became a naturalized French citizen and in 1872 set up a new branch in Lyon.

Josephin Soulary

Josephin (Joseph Marie) Soulary (February 23, 1815 - March 28, 1891), French poet, son of a Lyon merchant of Genoese origin (Solari).

Lady Sarah Chatto

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Lugduname

Lugduname (from lat. Lugdunum for Lyons) is one of the most potent sweetening agents known.

Michael Bowes-Lyon

Michael Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1928–1987), first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey

Due to religious persecution, a group of Cistercian nuns emigrated to Canada in 1904, from a Cistercian monastery located in Vaise (Lyon), France (which had been founded in 1817) in order to reestablish their monastic community in Rogersville.

Panos Kammenos

He studied economics and psychology at the University of Lyon Business Administration School of Managers in Switzerland.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

The fifth of seven sons and one of the eleven children of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and of Frances Dora Smith, he married Alice Wiltshire, daughter of George Wiltshire, on 9 August 1893.

As a younger brother of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, who was Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon's father, he was a great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.

Patrick Bowes-Lyon (5 March 1863 in Belgravia, Middlesex – 5 October 1946 in Westerham, Kent) was a British tennis player, barrister and uncle of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, mother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Petrus Borel

Born Joseph-Pierre Borel dHauterive at Lyon, the twelfth of fourteen children of an ironmonger, he studied architecture in Paris but abandoned it for literature.

Pierre Dupont

Pierre Dupont (April 23, 1821 – July 24, 1870), French song-writer, the son of a blacksmith, was born in Lyon.

Salmanticenses and Complutenses

It appeared at Lyon in 1670 in five quarto volumes, under the title "Collegii Complutensis Fr. Discalc. B. M. V. de Monte Carmeli Artium cursus ad breviorem formam collectus et novo ordine atque faciliori stylo dispositus".

Sea spider

Researchers from the University of Lyon discovered about 70 fossils from three distinct species in the 160 million-year-old Jurassic La Voulte Lagerstätte.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Sir Robert Slingsby, 1st Baronet

He entered the Navy and when only 22 was given his first command, the Eighth Lyon's Whelp, then in 1636 the Third Lyon's Whelp, and then the Expedition, in which in 1640 he transported arms from the Tower of London to Edinburgh.

Stade des Lumières

On 13 October 2008, the project was agreed upon by the French government, the General Council of Rhône, the Grand Lyon, SYTRAL, and the municipality of Décines for construction with approximately 180 million of public money being used and between €60–80 million coming from the Urban Community of Lyon.

On 1 September 2008, Olympique Lyonnais president Jean-Michel Aulas announced plans to create a new 60,000-seat stadium, tentatively called OL Land, to be built on 50 hectares of land located in Décines-Charpieu, a suburb of Lyon.

Stade du Rhône

Stade du Rhône is an athletics stadium located in the Parc de Parilly in the commune of Venissieux in Lyon, France.

Sylvester Gozzolini

In 1248, he obtained from Innocent IV, at Lyon, a papal bull confirming his order, and before his death founded a eleven monasteries in Italy.

The Sun Eats Hours

The hidden track in the CD contains a live recording in Lyon, France of the song The Same Devils from Don't Waste Time.

Van Le Ngoc

From 1996 - 1998, he followed his study to become a ballet dancer at National Superior Conservatory of Music and Dance in Lyon (CNSM).

Veratalpa

According to Trouessart, the suffix -ana is appropriate for names that reference persons, but not for those that refer to places, such as this name, which is derived from Lugdunum (the Latin name for Lyon).

Veratalpa is known only from the locality of Vieux Collonges near Lyon in southeastern France; Ameghino knew this locality as "Mont-Ceindre".

Zofia Chądzyńska

After the war she lived in France where her husband, Bohdan Chądzyński, was a Polish consul in Lyon until 1949, then was exiled via Morocco to Argentina.


2000 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon

The 2000 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon in France and was part of the International Series of the 2000 ATP Tour.

2002 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon

The 2002 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon in France and was part of the International Series of the 2002 ATP Tour.

48May

Hook and Jon went to Hamilton Boys' High School together, where Jon was head boy, while Stowers in the year above, was the lead singer in the band The Grinners (née Lyon), while Shannon Brown is well known on the New Zealand music circuit for his roles in bands such as Tadpole.

Alexandros Vasileiou

Because of his trading businesses he lived in several cities throughout Europe: Amsterdam, Marseille, Lyon, Paris, Vienna, Trieste.

Banning Lyon

In the summer of 2010 Mr. Lyon lived and worked as first mate aboard the SV Valora, a wooden schooner based out of Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts.

Brackley railway station

On 13 May 1950 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth arrived at Brackley station en route to the first official British Grand Prix held at Silverstone.

Caste system among Muslims

Stephen M. Lyon of University of Kent has written about what he calls "Gujarism", the act of Gurjars in Pakistan seeking out other Gurjars to form associations, and consolidate ties with them, based strictly on caste affiliation.

Centrifugal railway

Although installations were later placed in the cities of Bordeaux, Havre, and Lyons, the ride ultimately proved to be unpopular and more looping roller coasters were not built for nearly twenty years.

Claude Bowes-Lyon

Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (1855 - 1944), father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Cliché Skateboards

In February 2011, the French company released a guest board for skateboarding pioneer Mark Gonzales, who had previously lived for a year with Daclin in Lyon, and an accompanying video was also published.

Clint Hallam

A surgery team led by Australian Earl Owen and Frenchman Jean-Michel Dubernard transplanted a new hand on 23 September 1998 in a 13-hour long operation in Lyon, France.

Desert Hills

Desert Mountains, a mountain range in Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada

Downtown Ottawa

It will include 3 subway stations; one between Lyon and Kent Streets, integrated with Place de Ville, the next station will be built between O'Connor Street and Metcalfe Street and one under Rideau Street with multiple entrances in the Rideau Centre.

Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

The station allows passengers to regional trains from Bourgoin-Jallieu, La Tour-du-Pin, Saint-André-le-Gaz, Vienne, Valencia, Mâcon and Villefranche-sur-Saône, according to their final destination, to use the new station as additional entry point in the center of Lyon.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

It is believed that Duiffopruggar was born near Füssen in Bavaria, Germany, and had moved to Lyon, France, where he did most of his work, by 1553.

IDBUS

Currently, iDBUS serves Aix-en-Provence, Amsterdam, Brussels, Gene, Lille, London, Lyon, Marseille, Milan, Nice, Paris, Paris Charles de Gaulle airport and Turin.

Institut national des sciences appliquées

There are 5 INSA establishments organised as a network and located in major French regional cities Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg and Toulouse.

John Short

Born in Richmond, Upper Canada and educated in Lennoxville, Canada East, he was the son of the Reverend Robert Short and Margaret Lyon, the grandson of John Quirk Short and the great-grandson of Robert Quirk Short.

Joseph François Michaud

He was born at Albens, Savoie, educated at Bourg-en-Bresse, and afterwards engaged in literary work at Lyon, where the French Revolution first aroused the strong dislike of revolutionary principles which manifested itself throughout the rest of his life.

Louis Bruyas

Louis Bruyas (24 April 1738, Lyon - 14 June 1807, Friedland, now known as Pravdinsk, near Kaliningrad, Russia), stage and pen-name Bursay, was a French actor and playwright.

Lyon County, Iowa

Lyon County is named in honor of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, who served in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War.

Music Inspired by the Group of Seven

However, snippets of recorded dialogue from the Group of Seven artists, and other contemporaneous figures such as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Mackenzie King and John Diefenbaker, are mixed in.

Onnig Cavoukian

During his career, Cavouk's subjects included Indira Gandhi, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, Oscar Peterson, Pierre and Margaret Trudeau, Leonid Brezhnev, Patrick Macnee, Hubert Humphrey, and Pat Nixon.

Orli Shaham

Her appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Detroit and Atlanta Symphonies, Orchestre National de Lyon, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Orchestra of La Scala (Milan), Orchestra della Toscana (Florence), and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

Passage SAS

At the same time, the brand developed construction applications, in particular by supplying the nosing for the Paris metro steps and equipping the pedestrian zones in cities such as Lyon, Lille and Bordeaux.

Philippe Decouflé

He has worked for the Lyon Opera Ballet, and choreographed the music video for New Order's "True Faith" and Fine Young Cannibals' "She Drives Me Crazy".

Raymond Barre

In 1995, the RPR Mayor of Lyon Michel Noir could not compete for another term in due to a judicial indictment, and consequently, Barre was the right-wing candidate to the mayoralty.

Rosemonde Gérard

The phrase became celebrated as an expression of ever-growing love when, in 1907 (17 years after its publication), a Lyons jeweler, Alphonse Augis, had the idea of making a medallion with the core portion of the verse engraved on it.

Rue des Marronniers

When he left Lyon for Villeurbanne, Marcel Maréchal succeeded him and installed the Théâtre du Cothurne.

SNCF Class X 72500

They operate longer distance TER services, particularly in the areas south and west of Paris, the Paris to Laon line, around Tours, Nantes, Toulouse, Lyon, Dijon, Nevers, Grenoble, Bordeaux and the South Coast of France.

SNCF Class Z 23500

They are mainly used on stopping services around the French Riviera (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur), Lille (Nord-Pas-de-Calais) and Lyon (Rhône-Alpes).

Society of Mary

Marist Brothers, a Catholic religious congregation of brothers with affiliated lay people founded in France, at La Valla near Lyon in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat, a young French priest of the Society of Mary.

Symphorien Champier

A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, whom he followed to Italy with Louis XII, attending to several battles, and finally settling in Lyon.

The Gerry Ryan Show

These included the scenery, Guinness, potatoes, the seas and coastline, whiskey, Barry's and Lyon's tea, Kimberley and Mikado biscuits, the smell of turf, red hair, homemade brown bread, oysters, Baileys coffee, hurling, Irish comedians, Irish history, the River Shannon, Podge and Rodge, Irish literature, bacon and cabbage, Irish stew and the GAA.

Transport in Le Havre

The station is served by trains to major cities such as Paris, Rouen, Lyon, Marseille and local services to Fecamp and Rolleville.

VolkerRail

This is a very long standing contract and is a legacy of British Steel's ownership of Grant Lyon Eagre and subsequently Corus' part ownership of GrantRail.

Western Australia border

This expedition, to determine 129° east on the ground, created world-wide scientific interest and involved the cooperation of the Astronomer Royal and the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, with wireless time signals sent by the French wireless Service, that were transmitted from the Lyons astronomical observatory (Observatoire de Lyon) at Saint-Genis-Laval, near Lyons, France, between 17 and 24 November 1920.

William Whittingham

He went to France, where he spent his time chiefly at the University of Orleans, but he also visited Lyon and studied at Paris, where his services as interpreter were used by the English ambassador, Sir John Mason or Sir William Pickering.

William Wynter

Eight ships including the Antelope and Lyon carried on into the Firth of Forth towards the fortress Island of Inchkeith on 21 January.

XTuple

Jeffrey Lyon, the original developer of OpenMFG, contacted Ned LIlly, then of Great Bridge, a company incubated within Landmark Media Enterprises (formerly Landmark Communications), whose owner, Frank Batten Jr., had heavily invested in Red Hat.

Yves Brayer

He also created murals and wall ornamentations, tapestry cartoons, maquettes, sets, and costumes for the Théâtre Français and the operas of Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Lyon, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Avignon.