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Bridges of Lyon

Index Bridges of Lyon

This is a list of bridges in the French city of Lyon on the Rhône and Saône rivers, ordered from upstream to downstream portions of the river. [1]

72 relations: Aciéries de Longwy, Ainay, Alphonse Juin, Ancien Régime, Arch bridge, Édouard Herriot, Beaujolais, Blade, Boniface de Castellane, Caluire-et-Cuire, Cantilever, Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée, Cité Internationale, Claude-Marius Vaïsse, Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or, Dietmar Feichtinger, Ecumenism, Forez, Fourvière, French franc, Gabriel Péri, Gare de Lyon, Gare de Lyon-Perrache, Gare de Lyon-Vaise, Gare des Brotteaux, Georges Clemenceau, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Givors, Goldsmith, Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Jean-Antoine Morand, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Joseph Gallieni, La Croix-Rousse, Louis Pasteur, Lycée du Parc, Lyon, Lyon tramway, Lyonnais, Marc Seguin, Marie-Pierre Kœnig, Metro International, Parc de la Tête d'or, Perrache (quarter), Porcieu-Amblagnieu, Raymond Barre, Raymond Poincaré, Rhône, ..., Rhone–Rhine Canal, River source, Robert Schuman, Rue Mercière, Saône, Saint-Nizier Church, Siege of Lyon, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Traffic circle, Treaty of Versailles, Tunnel de la Croix-Rousse, Twin bridges, Vaise, Vieux Lyon, Villebois, Villefranche-sur-Saône, Villette-sur-Ain, Villeurbanne, Winston Churchill, Woodrow Wilson, 1st Free French Division, 6th arrondissement of Lyon. Expand index (22 more) »

Aciéries de Longwy

The Société des aciéries de Longwy (Longwy Steelworks Co.) was a steelworks located in Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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Ainay

Ainay is an area within the Presqu'ile district in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, to the south of Place Bellecour and the north of Perrache.

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Alphonse Juin

Alphonse Pierre Juin (16 December 1888 – 27 January 1967) was a senior French Army officer who became a Marshal of France.

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Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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Arch bridge

An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch.

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Édouard Herriot

Édouard Marie Herriot (5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and for many years as President of the Chamber of Deputies.

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Beaujolais

Beaujolais is a French Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) wine generally made of the Gamay grape which has a thin skin and is low in tannins.

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Blade

A blade is the portion of a tool, weapon, or machine with an edge that is designed to puncture, chop, slice or scrape surfaces or materials.

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Boniface de Castellane

Esprit Victor Elisabeth Boniface de Castellane, comte de Castellane (March 21, 1788September 16, 1862), was a French military officer and ultimately a Marshal of France.

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Caluire-et-Cuire

Caluire et Cuire is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Cantilever

A cantilever is a rigid structural element, such as a beam or a plate, anchored at one end to a (usually vertical) support from which it protrudes; this connection could also be perpendicular to a flat, vertical surface such as a wall.

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Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée

The Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (usually known simply as the PLM) was a French railway company.

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Cité Internationale

Cité Internationale (International City) is a quarter in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Claude-Marius Vaïsse

Claude-Marius Vaïsse (8 July 1799 – 8 August 1864) was a French lawyer who joined the administration of the July Monarchy. During the French Second Republic he was briefly Minister of the Interior. Under the Second French Empire he was appointed prefect of the Rhône department. He was called the "Hausmann of Lyon" for his work on urban design in Lyon.

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Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or

Couzon-au-Mont-d'Or is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Dietmar Feichtinger

Dietmar Feichtinger (born 18 November 1961 in Bruck an der Mur) is an Austrian architect established since 1989 in Paris.

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Ecumenism

Ecumenism refers to efforts by Christians of different Church traditions to develop closer relationships and better understandings.

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Forez

Forez is a former province of France, corresponding approximately to the central part of the modern Loire département and a part of the Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme départements.

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Fourvière

Fourvière is a district of Lyon, France and also a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising abruptly from the river Saône and then gently sloping down to the north-west.

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French franc

The franc (sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France.

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Gabriel Péri

Gabriel Péri (Peri) (February 9, 1902—December 15, 1941) was a prominent French Communist journalist and politician, and member of the French Resistance.

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Gare de Lyon

The Gare de Lyon (Lyon Station), officially Paris-Gare-de-Lyon, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France.

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Gare de Lyon-Perrache

Lyon-Perrache (gare de Lyon-Perrache) is a large railway station located in the Perrache district, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Gare de Lyon-Vaise

Gare de Lyon-Vaise is a railway station in Lyon, located in the district of Vaise, in the 9th arrondissement.

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Gare des Brotteaux

The Gare des Brotteaux is an old railway station located in the Brotteaux quarter, in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Georges Clemenceau

Georges Benjamin Clemenceau (28 September 1841 – 24 November 1929) was a French politician, physician, and journalist who was Prime Minister of France during the First World War.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), in the United States often known simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War.

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Givors

Givors is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Goldsmith

A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals.

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Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon

Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon was a hospital of historical significance situated on the west bank of the Rhone river, on the "Presque-isle" (the Peninsula between the Saône and Rhone rivers which run through the city center).

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Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916), was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War.

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Hospices Civils de Lyon

The Université Hospital of Lyon (Hospices Civils de Lyon, HCL) were created in January 18, 1802.

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Jean-Antoine Morand

Jean-Antoine Morand (1727–1794) was an 18th-century French architect and urban planner whose plan circulaire (circular plan) "reimagined" the city of Lyons.

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Jean-Baptiste Marchand

General Jean-Baptiste Marchand (2 November 1863 – 13 January 1934) was a French military officer and explorer in Africa.

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Joseph Gallieni

Joseph Simon Gallieni (24 April 1849 – 27 May 1916) was a French soldier, active for most of his career as a military commander and administrator in the French colonies.

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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.

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Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French biologist, microbiologist and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization.

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Lycée du Parc

The Lycée du Parc is a public secondary school located in the sixth arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Lyon

Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France.

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Lyon tramway

The Lyon tramway (Tramway de Lyon) comprises six lines, five lines operated by TCL and one by Rhônexpress in the city of Lyon in Rhône-Alpes, France.

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Lyonnais

The Lyonnais is a historical province of France which owes its name to the city of Lyon.

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Marc Seguin

Marc Seguin (20 April 1786 – 24 February 1875) was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler.

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Marie-Pierre Kœnig

Marie-Pierre Kœnig (10 October 1898 – 2 September 1970) was a French army officer and politician.

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Metro International

Metro International is a Swedish global media company based in Luxembourg that publishes the Metro newspapers. Metro International's advertising sales have grown at a compound annual growth rate of 41 percent since launch of the first newspaper edition in 1995.http://hugin.info/132142/R/1125327/208539.pdf It is a freesheet, meaning that distribution is free, with revenues thus generated entirely through advertising. This newspaper is primarily intended for commuters who move daily in and out of big cities' business areas, mainly during rush hours. The company was founded by Per Andersson and started as a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group along with Viasat Broadcasting. It is now controlled through the Mats Qviberg owned investment company Custos. The first edition of the newspaper was published as Metro Stockholm and distributed in the Stockholm metro., all European editions (except for the Hungarian one) have been sold, reportedly so that Metro International can focus on Latin America, considered the last growth market for free newspapers.

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Parc de la Tête d'or

Parc de la Tête d'or ("Park of the Golden Head"), in Lyon, is a large urban park in France with an area of approximately.

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Perrache (quarter)

Perrache is a quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, in the south of the Presqu'île.

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Porcieu-Amblagnieu

Porcieu-Amblagnieu is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France.

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Raymond Barre

Raymond Octave Joseph Barre (12 April 192425 August 2007) was a French centre-right politician and economist.

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Raymond Poincaré

Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served three times as 58th Prime Minister of France, and as President of France from 1913 to 1920.

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Rhône

The Rhône (Le Rhône; Rhone; Walliser German: Rotten; Rodano; Rôno; Ròse) is one of the major rivers of Europe and has twice the average discharge of the Loire (which is the longest French river), rising in the Rhône Glacier in the Swiss Alps at the far eastern end of the Swiss canton of Valais, passing through Lake Geneva and running through southeastern France.

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Rhone–Rhine Canal

The Canal du Rhône au Rhin is one of the important watershed canals of the French waterways, connecting the Rhine to the Saône and the Rhône and thereby the North Sea and the Mediterranean.

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River source

The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the furthest place in that river or stream from its estuary or confluence with another river, as measured along the course of the river.

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Robert Schuman

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman (29 June 18864 September 1963) was a Luxembourg-born French statesman.

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Rue Mercière

Rue Mercière is a street of Les Cordeliers quarter in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Saône

The Saône (La Saône; Arpitan Sona, Arar) is a river of eastern France.

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Saint-Nizier Church

The Church of Saint-Nizier is a church in the Presqu'ile district of Lyon, France, in the 2nd arrondissement, between the Place des Terreaux and the Place des Jacobins.

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Siege of Lyon

The Siege of Lyon occurred on 9 August to 9 October 1793 when French Republican forces laid siege and captured the city of Lyon, which had revolted against the French government.

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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes anglicised to Thomas Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czech politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher.

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Traffic circle

A traffic circle is a type of intersection that directs both turning and through traffic onto a one-way circular roadway, usually built for the purposes of traffic calming or aesthetics.

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Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles (Traité de Versailles) was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.

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Tunnel de la Croix-Rousse

The Tunnel de la Croix-Rousse is a pair of two tunnels located in the 1st and 4th arrondissements of Lyon, a road tunnel opened to traffic on 19 April 1952 and a sustainable transport tunnel opened in 2013.

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Twin bridges

Twin bridges are a set of two bridges running parallel to each other.

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Vaise

Vaise is a neighborhood of the City of Lyon (France), located along the Saône at the foot of the plateau Duchère, north-west of the city.

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Vieux Lyon

The Vieux Lyon (Old Lyon) is the largest Renaissance district of Lyon.

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Villebois

Villebois is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

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Villefranche-sur-Saône

Villefranche-sur-Saône (Velafranche) is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.

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Villette-sur-Ain

Villette-sur-Ain is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.

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Villeurbanne

Villeurbanne (Velorbana) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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1st Free French Division

The 1st Free French Division (1re Division Française Libre, 1re DFL) was one of the principal units of the Free French Forces (FFL) during World War II, renowned for having fought the Battle of Bir Hakeim.

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6th arrondissement of Lyon

The 6th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon and one of the poshest.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridges_of_Lyon

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