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Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. [1]

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A42 autoroute

The A42 autoroute is a short motorway in France.

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A43 autoroute

The A43 autoroute, also known as l'autoroute alpine and l'autoroute de la Maurienne, is a motorway in France.

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A46 autoroute

The A46 autoroute is a highway in central France.

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A6 autoroute

The A6, also known as the Autoroute du Soleil, Motorway of the Sun, (along with the A7), is an Autoroute in France, linking Paris to Lyon.

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A7 autoroute

The A7 Autoroute, also known as l'autoroute du Soleil (English: the Motorway of the Sun) is a French motorway.

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Administrative division

An administrative division, unit, entity, area or region, also referred to as a subnational entity, statoid, constituent unit, or country subdivision, is a portion of a country or other region delineated for the purpose of administration.

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African Museum of Lyon

The African Museum of Lyon (Musée Africain de Lyon) is the oldest museum in France dedicated to Africa, and one of the oldest museums in Lyon.

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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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Aleppo

Aleppo (ﺣﻠﺐ / ALA-LC) is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most-populous Syrian governorate.

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Allobroges

The Allobroges (Άλλόβριγες, Άλλόβρυγες, Άλλόβρoγες) were a Gallic tribe of ancient Gaul, located between the Rhône River and Lake Geneva in what later became Savoy, Dauphiné, and Vivarais.

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Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls

The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls (Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules) of Lugdunum (Lyon) was part of the federal sanctuary of the three Gauls dedicated to the cult of Rome and Augustus celebrated by the 60 Gallic tribes when they gathered at Lugdunum.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Ancient Theatre of Fourvière

The Ancient Theatre of Fourvière (Théâtre antique de Lyon) is a Roman theatre in Lyon, France.

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Andouillette

Andouillette is a coarse-grained sausage made with pork (or occasionally veal), intestines or chitterlings, pepper, wine, onions, and seasonings.

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Anno Domini

The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

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Antoine Héroet

Antoine Héroet, surnamed La Maison-Neuve (died 1568) was a French poet.

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April Group

April Group is a French insurance company, headquartered in Lyon, France.

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Archbishop

In Christianity, an archbishop (via Latin archiepiscopus, from Greek αρχιεπίσκοπος, from αρχι-, 'chief', and επίσκοπος, 'bishop') is a bishop of higher rank or office.

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Aristide Cavaillé-Coll

Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (4 February 1811 – 13 October 1899), was a French organ builder.

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Arkane Studios

Arkane Studios SASU is a French video game developer based in Lyon, France.

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Armenia

Armenia (translit), officially the Republic of Armenia (translit), is a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia.

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Arrondissement

An arrondissement is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, and the Netherlands.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Astroballe

Astroballe, or L'Astroballe is an indoor sports arena that is located in the Cusset neighborhood of Villeurbanne, Lyon, France, near the Metro Station Laurent Bonnevay (line A).

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ASVEL Basket

ASVEL Basket, commonly known as ASVEL or sometimes as ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne, is a French professional basketball team that is located in the city of Villeurbanne, which is a suburb of Lyon, France.

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Auguste and Louis Lumière

The Lumière brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas; 19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Jean; 5 October 1864 – 7 June 1948), were among the first filmmakers in history. They patented an improved cinematograph, which in contrast to Thomas Edison's "peepshow" kinetoscope allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region of France created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014; it resulted from the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes.

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École catholique des arts et métiers

The École catholique d'arts et métiers (ECAM) of Lyon is an engineering school, it is one of the French "Grande écoles".

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École centrale de Lyon

The École centrale de Lyon (ECL) is a research university in Lyon, France.

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École des Beaux-Arts

An École des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) is one of a number of influential art schools in France.

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École normale supérieure de Lyon

The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a highly selective grande école located in Lyon, France.

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École pour l'informatique et les techniques avancées

The École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées (the "Graduate School of Computer Science and Advanced Technologies"), more commonly known as EPITA is a French grande école specialized in the field of computer science and software engineering.

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École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon

École Supérieure de Chimie Physique Électronique de Lyon or CPE Lyon is a French engineering school, located in Villeurbanne, near Lyon.

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Éditions Larousse

Éditions Larousse is a French publishing house specialising in reference works such as dictionaries.

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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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Église Notre Dame Saint-Vincent

The Église Notre Dame Saint-Vincent is a Roman Catholic church located in Lyon, on the banks of the Saône, quai Saint-Vincent, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.

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Église Saint-Bonaventure

The Église Saint-Bonaventure is one of the churches of the quarter Presqu'île, located on the Place des Cordeliers, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Église Saint-Georges

The Église Saint-Georges (Church of St. George) is a Roman Catholic church located on the Place François-Bertras, in the Vieux Lyon quarter, in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Église Saint-Paul

The Église Saint-Paul is a Roman Catholic church located in Lyon, France.

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Église Saint-Polycarpe

The Église Saint-Polycarpe (Church of St. Polycarp) is a Roman Catholic church located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse, between rue René Leynaud, rue Burdeau and passages Mermet and Thiaffait.

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Łódź

Łódź (לאדזש, Lodzh; also written as Lodz) is the third-largest city in Poland and an industrial hub.

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Babolat

Babolat is a French tennis, badminton, and squash equipment company, headquartered in Lyon, best known for its strings and tennis racquets which are used by several top players.

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Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière

The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière (Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière) is a minor basilica in Lyon.

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Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay

The Basilica of Saint-Martin d'Ainay (Basilique Saint-Martin d'Ainay) is a Romanesque church in Ainay in the Presqu'île district in the historic centre of Lyon, France.

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Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

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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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Beersheba

Beersheba, also spelled Beer-Sheva (בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע; بئر السبع), is the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Bill Buford

Bill Buford (born 1954) is an American author and journalist.

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BioMérieux

bioMérieux is a multinational biotechnology company founded and headquartered in France.

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Birdy Kids

Birdy Kids is a French-based street-art artist collective.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Blandina

Saint Blandina (Blandine, died 177 AD) was a Christian martyr who died at Lyon, France during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

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Boiron

Boiron is a manufacturer of homeopathic products, headquartered in France and with an operating presence in 59 countries worldwide.

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Bouchon

A bouchon is a type of restaurant found in Lyon, France, that serves traditional Lyonnaise cuisine, such as sausages, duck pâté or roast pork.

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Bron

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

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Brothers of the Sacred Heart

The Brothers of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic religious congregation founded in 1821 by the Reverend André Coindre (1787-1826).

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Brunch

Brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch eaten usually during the late morning to early afternoon, generally served from 10am up to 2pm, and regularly has some form of alcoholic drink (most usually champagne or a cocktail) served with it.

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Burgundians

The Burgundians (Burgundiōnes, Burgundī; Burgundar; Burgendas; Βούργουνδοι) were a large East Germanic or Vandal tribe, or group of tribes, who lived in the area of modern Poland in the time of the Roman Empire.

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Bus

A bus (archaically also omnibus, multibus, motorbus, autobus) is a road vehicle designed to carry many passengers.

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Buses in Lyon

The Lyon surface bus network is operated by Keolis Lyon on behalf of SYTRAL for TCL.

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Canaletto

Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of city views or vedute, of Venice, Rome, and London.

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Canut

The canuts were Lyonnais silk workers, often working on Jacquard looms.

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Canut revolts

The Canut revolts (Révolte des canuts) is the collective name for the major revolts by Lyonnais silk workers (canuts) which occurred in 1831, 1834 and 1848.

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Caracalla

Caracalla (Latin: Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus; 4 April 188 – 8 April 217), formally known as Antoninus, was Roman emperor from 198 to 217 AD.

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Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio or Dio Cassius (c. 155 – c. 235) was a Roman statesman and historian of Greek origin.

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Catholic University of Lyon

The Catholic University of Lyon (Université Catholique de Lyon), or the Lyon Catholic University also known as the Catholic Institute of Lyon (Institut catholique de Lyon), is a private university based in Lyon, France.

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Côtes du Rhône AOC

Côtes du Rhône is a wine-growing Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for the Rhône wine region of France, which may be used throughout the region, also in those areas which are covered by other AOCs.

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Celtic mythology

Celtic mythology is the mythology of Celtic polytheism, the religion of the Iron Age Celts.

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Centre d'histoire de la résistance et de la déportation

The Centre d'histoire de la résistance et de la déportation (Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation) is a museum in Lyon, France.

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Centre-right politics

Centre-right politics or center-right politics (American English), also referred to as moderate-right politics, are politics that lean to the right of the left–right political spectrum, but are closer to the centre than other right-wing variants.

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Cervelle de canut

Cervelle de canut is a cheese spread/dip, and a specialty of Lyon, France.

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Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Lyon

The Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Lyon (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Lyon) is one of the Chambers of Commerce and Industry of the Rhône department in France.

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Chapelle de la Trinité

The Chapelle de la Trinité is a Roman Catholic chapel located at 29-31 rue de la Bourse, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Charcuterie

Charcuterie (or; northern or southern, from chair "meat" and cuit "cooked") is the branch of cooking devoted to prepared meat products, such as bacon, ham, sausage, terrines, galantines, ballotines, pâtés, and confit, primarily from pork.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux

The Church of Saint-Bruno des Chartreux (Église Saint-Bruno des Chartreux, or the Church of Saint Bruno of the Carthusians) is a Roman Catholic church located in Lyon, France.

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Cinematograph

A cinematograph is a motion picture film camera, which also serves as a film projector and printer.

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Circus Games Mosaic

The Circus Games Mosaic is a 2nd-century Roman mosaic depicting a chariot race in quadrigas.

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Cité Scolaire Internationale de Lyon

The Cité Scolaire Internationale de Lyon (CSI), also known as the "Lycée International de Lyon" or Lycée de Gerland, is an international school located near where the Rhône and the Saône meet in the city of Lyon, France.

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Claude Bernard University Lyon 1

The Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (Université Claude-Bernard Lyon 1, UCBL), is one of the three public universities of Lyon, France.

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Claude Monet

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

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Claudius

Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC – 13 October 54 AD) was Roman emperor from 41 to 54.

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Coligny calendar

The Coligny calendar is a Gaulish peg calendar or ''parapegma'' made in Roman Gaul in the 2nd century, giving a five-year cycle of a lunisolar calendar with intercalary months.

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Collège-lycée Ampère

The Collège-lycée Ampère is a famous school located in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Communes of France

The commune is a level of administrative division in the French Republic.

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Compagnie Nationale du Rhône

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR) is a French electricity generation company, mainly supplying renewable power from hydroelectric facilities on the Rhone.

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Coq au vin

Coq au vin ("rooster/cock with wine") is a French dish of chicken braised with wine, lardons, mushrooms, and optionally garlic.

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Council of Europe

The Council of Europe (CoE; Conseil de l'Europe) is an international organisation whose stated aim is to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Europe.

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Counting house

A counting house, or computing house is the building, room, office or suite in which a business firm carries on operations, particularly accounting.

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Coussin de Lyon

The Coussin de Lyon is a sweet specialty of Lyon, France composed of chocolate and marzipan and created by,a French chocolatier.

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Craiova

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Curnonsky

Maurice Edmond Sailland (October 12, 1872, Angers, France – July 22, 1956, Paris), better known by his pen-name Curnonsky (nicknamed 'Cur'), and dubbed the Prince of Gastronomy, was the most celebrated writer on gastronomy in France in the 20th century.

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Décines-Charpieu

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

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Division 1 Féminine

The Championnat de France de Football Féminin, primarily referred to as the Division 1 Féminine and shortened as D1F, is the highest division of women's football in France.

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E-Artsup

E-Artsup is a French private university created in 2001 and specialized in digital creativity and multimedia.

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Early Christianity

Early Christianity, defined as the period of Christianity preceding the First Council of Nicaea in 325, typically divides historically into the Apostolic Age and the Ante-Nicene Period (from the Apostolic Age until Nicea).

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Eden Games

Eden Games (known as Eden Studios until 2003) is a game development studio.

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Eiffel Tower

The Eiffel Tower (tour Eiffel) is a wrought iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France.

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EMLYON Business School

emlyon business school is a French leading business school.

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Epipodius and Alexander

Epipodius (Épipode) and his companion Alexander (died 178 AD) are venerated as Christian saints.

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Epitech

The Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation (École pour l'informatique et les nouvelles technologies, or Epitech), formerly European Institute of Information Technology in English is a private institution of higher education in general computer science that was founded in 1999 and has been accredited by the French government.

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ESDES School of Business and Management

ESDES School of Business and Management (École supérieure pour le développement économique et social) was founded in 1987 as part of the Catholic University of Lyon which has stood for a hundred and thirty years since its foundation in 1875 in Lyon, France.

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ESME-Sudria

The Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité (English traduction: Special School of Mechanics and Electricity), called ESME Sudria, is a French private institution of higher education and research (Grande École d'Ingénieurs) located in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon & Lille).

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Eugénie Brazier

Eugénie Brazier, known as "la mère Brazier" (12 June 1895 – 2 March 1977) was a French chef, who in 1933 became the first woman to earn three Michelin stars.

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Eurolines

Eurolines Organisation is an international non-profit organisation according to Belgian law.

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Euronews

Euronews is a multilingual news media service, headquartered in Lyon, France.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is an institution of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing the day-to-day business of the EU.

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Fair

A fair (archaic: faire or fayre), also known as funfair, is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.

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Fernand Braudel

Fernand Braudel (24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian and a leader of the Annales School.

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Festival of Lights (Lyon)

The Festival of Lights (Fête des lumières) in Lyon, France expresses gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8th of each year.

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Fontaine Bartholdi

The Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain sculpted by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and realised in 1889 by Gaget & Gautier.

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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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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, (22 January 15619 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author.

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Francis de Sales

Francis de Sales (François de Sales; Francesco di Sales); 21 August 156728 December 1622) was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church. He became noted for his deep faith and his gentle approach to the religious divisions in his land resulting from the Protestant Reformation. He is known also for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation, particularly the Introduction to the Devout Life and the Treatise on the Love of God.

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Francisco de Zurbarán

Francisco de Zurbarán (baptized November 7, 1598 – August 27, 1664) was a Spanish painter.

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Francisque Collomb

Francisque Collomb (Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey, Ain 19 December 1910 – Lyon, 24 July 2009) was a French politician and the Mayor of Lyon from 1976 to 1989.

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Franco-Provençal language

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Frankfurt

Frankfurt, officially the City of Frankfurt am Main ("Frankfurt on the Main"), is a metropolis and the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany.

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French Forces of the Interior

The French Forces of the Interior (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur) refers to French resistance fighters in the later stages of World War II.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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French Revolution

The French Revolution (Révolution française) was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France and its colonies that lasted from 1789 until 1799.

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French Rugby League Championship

The French rugby league championship (Le Championnat de France de Rugby à XIII) has been the major rugby league tournament for semi-professional and professional clubs in France and Monaco since the sport was introduced to the country in the 1930s.

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Fromage blanc

Fromage blanc (also known as maquée) is a fresh cheese originating from the north of France and the south of Belgium.

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Funicular

A funicular is one of the modes of transport, along with a cable railway and an inclined elevator, which uses a cable traction for movement on a steep slope.

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Funiculars of Lyon

The Funiculars of Lyon (Funiculaires de Lyon) is a network of funicular railways in Lyon, France.

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Gallia Lugdunensis

Gallia Lugdunensis (French: Gaule Lyonnaise) was a province of the Roman Empire in what is now the modern country of France, part of the Celtic territory of Gaul formerly known as Celtica.

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Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière

The Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière (French: Musée gallo-romain de Lyon-Fourvière) is a museum on the Gallo-Roman civilisation in Lyon (Roman Lugdunum), previously located in the heart of the Roman city and now sited near the city's Roman theatre on the Fourvière hill, half-buried into the hillside on the edge of the archaeological site.

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Gare de Lyon Saint-Exupéry

Gare de Saint-Exupéry TGV (formerly Gare de Satolas TGV) is a railway station near Lyon, France, directly attached to the Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport.

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Gare de Lyon-Gorge-de-Loup

Gare de Lyon-Gorge de Loup is a railway station in the Gorge de Loup area of western Lyon, mainly used by TER lines towards destinations in the north of the city.

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Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé

Gare de Lyon-Jean Macé (English: Lyon-Jean-Macé railway station) is a railway station in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Gare de Lyon-Part-Dieu

Gare de la Part-Dieu (English: Part-Dieu railway station) is the primary railway station in Lyon, 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-Saint-Paul

Lyon-Saint-Paul is a railway station in the 5th 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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Gaspard André

Gaspard André (March 16, 1840 in Lyon - February 12, 1896 in Cannes) was a French architect, best known as the designer of the Theater of the Place des Célestins, the Fountain of the Place des Jacobins and the Grand Temple de Lyon in Lyon, the city hall of Neuilly-sur-Seine and the Palace of Rumine in Lausanne.

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Gastronomy

Gastronomy is the study of the relationship between food and culture, the art of preparing and serving rich or delicate and appetizing food, the cooking styles of particular regions, and the science of good eating.

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Gérard Collomb

Gérard Collomb (born 20 June 1947) is a French politician of the Socialist Party.

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Geneva

Geneva (Genève, Genèva, Genf, Ginevra, Genevra) is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of the Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

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Genoa

Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.

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Georges Képénékian

Georges Képénékian (born 9 August 1949) is a French politician of Armenian origin serving as Mayor of Lyon since 17 July 2017.

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Gestapo

The Gestapo, abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei (Secret State Police), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe.

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Gian Giorgio Trissino

Gian Giorgio Trissino (8 July 1478 – 8 December 1550), also called Giovan Giorgio Trissino, was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, and grammarian.

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Girondins

The Girondins, Girondists or Gironde were members of a loosely knit political faction during the French Revolution.

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Grand parc de Miribel-Jonage

The Grand parc de Miribel-Jonage is an urban park covering almost 2,200 hectares on the outskirts of Lyon.

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Gras double

Gras double is a tripe dish from the Lyonnaise cuisine of France.

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Grenoble

Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère.

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Groupe SEB

Groupe SEB (Société d'Emboutissage de Bourgogne) is a large French consortium that produces small appliances.

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Guangzhou

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong.

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Gwendal Peizerat

Gwendal Peizerat (born 21 April 1972) is a French former competitive ice dancer.

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Hôtel de Ville, Lyon

The Hôtel de Ville de Lyon is the city hall of the City of Lyon and one of the largest historic buildings in the city, located between the Place des Terreaux and the Place de la Comédie, in front of the Opera Nouvel.

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Hôtel particulier

An hôtel particulier ("hôtel" being rendered in Middle English as "inn"—as only used now in Inns of Court—and "particulier" meaning "personal" or "private") is a townhouse of a grand sort, comparable to the British townhouse.

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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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Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.

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History of film

Although the start of the history of film is not clearly defined, the commercial, public screening of ten of Lumière brothers' short films in Paris on 28 December 1895 can be regarded as the breakthrough of projected cinematographic motion pictures.

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Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh; or; formerly Hô-Chi-Minh-Ville), also widely known by its former name of Saigon (Sài Gòn; or), is the largest city in Vietnam by population.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, "Emperor of the Romans") was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806 AD, from Charlemagne to Francis II).

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Hoshū jugyō kō

Hoshū jugyō kō (補習授業校), or hoshūkō (補習校) are supplementary Japanese schools located in foreign countries.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Huns

The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe, between the 4th and 6th century AD.

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IAE Lyon

The IAE, standing for Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (Institute of Business Administration), is the school of business of the Jean Moulin University Lyon3.

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Ice dancing

Ice dancing is a discipline of figure skating that draws from ballroom dancing.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

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Institut d'études politiques de Lyon

The Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon (or Lyon Institute of Political Studies) also known as Sciences Po Lyon, is a grande école located in Lyon, France.

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Institut Lumière

The Institut Lumière ("Lumière Institute") is a French organisation, based in Lyon, for the promotion and preservation of aspects of French film making.

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Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques

The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques), abbreviated INSEE, is the national statistics bureau of France.

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Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon

The Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon or INSA Lyon is a Grande École d'Ingénieurs.

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Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action

The Institut supérieur européen de formation par l'action (ISEFAC) is a French private business school created in 2000.

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Institut supérieur européen de gestion group

The Institut supérieur européen de gestion group (ISEG group, French for Advanced European Institute of Management) is a group of two business schools, ISEG Marketing & Communication School and ISG Programme Business & Management, the former created in 1980, and the latter formed in 2014 when ISEG Business School and ISEG Finance School, each also founded in 1980, merged.

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Institution des Chartreux

The Institution des Chartreux or more commonly Les Chartreux is a private Roman Catholic Carthusian educational establishment under a "contract of association" to the French state school system.

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International Agency for Research on Cancer

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC; Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer, CIRC) is an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization of the United Nations.

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International School of Lyon

International School of Lyon (ISL) is an English-language international school in Sainte Foy-Lès-Lyon, France, near Lyon.

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Interpol

The International Criminal Police Organization (Organisation internationale de police criminelle; ICPO-INTERPOL), more commonly known as Interpol, is an international organization that facilitates international police cooperation.

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Irenaeus

Irenaeus (Ειρηναίος Eirēnaíos) (died about 202) was a Greek cleric noted for his role in guiding and expanding Christian communities in what is now the south of France and, more widely, for the development of Christian theology by combatting heresy and defining orthodoxy.

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Irish language

The Irish language (Gaeilge), also referred to as the Gaelic or the Irish Gaelic language, is a Goidelic language (Gaelic) of the Indo-European language family originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people.

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Isabelle Delobel

Isabelle Delobel (born 17 June 1978) is a French former competitive ice dancer.

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Iveco Bus

Iveco Bus (formerly Irisbus) is a bus manufacturer, with headquarters in Lyon, that belongs to the industrial group CNH Global through its subsidiary Iveco, based in Turin (Italy).

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Ivory Tower (company)

Ivory Tower SASU is a French video game developer located in Lyon, France.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jardin botanique de Lyon

The Jardin botanique de Lyon, also known as the Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d'Or, is an municipal botanical garden located in the Parc de la Tête d'Or, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France.

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Jean Moulin University Lyon 3

The Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3), also known as Lyon 3, is a multidisciplinary public university in Lyon, France, based in Law, Humanities and social sciences.

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Jean Nouvel

Jean Nouvel (born 12 August 1945) is a French architect.

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Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois

Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois (19 June 1749 – 8 June 1796) was a French actor, dramatist, essayist, and revolutionary.

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Joseph Fouché

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Bonaparte, who later became Emperor Napoleon.

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Jules Hardouin-Mansart

Jules Hardouin-Mansart (16 April 1646 – 11 May 1708) was a French architect whose work is generally considered to be the apex of French Baroque architecture, representing the power and grandeur of Louis XIV.

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Justin Godart

Justin Godart (November 26, 1871 – December 12, 1956) was a French politician who served as the Minister for Health from June 3, 1932 to December 18, 1932.

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Kingdom of Arles

The Kingdom of Arles (also Kingdom of Arelat or Second Kingdom of Burgundy) was a Frankish dominion established from lands of the early medieval Kingdom of the Burgundians in 933 by the merger of the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Burgundy under King Rudolf II.

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Kingdom of the Burgundians

The Kingdom of the Burgundians or First Kingdom of Burgundy was established by Germanic Burgundians in the Rhineland and then in Savoy in the 5th century.

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Klaus Barbie

Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (26 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was an SS and Gestapo functionary during the Nazi era.

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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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La Défense

La Défense is a major business district, three kilometres west of the city limits of Paris.

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La Martiniere Lyon

La Martiniere Lyon is the La Martiniere College branch in Lyon, France.

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La Part-Dieu

The district of La Part-Dieu is the central business district of Lyon, located in its 3rd arrondissement.

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La Sucrière

La Sucrière is a famous building devoted to contemporary art, situated 48 Quai Rambaud, on the banks of the Saône in the Confluence quarter of the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Laënnec

Laënnec is a quarter of the 8th arrondissement of Lyon, in France.

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LCL S.A.

LCL S.A. is a major French financial services company, with its registered office in Lyon, France and its administrative head office in Paris, France.

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Le Bachut

Le Bachut is a quarter in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (6 October 1887 – 27 August 1965), known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss-French architect, designer, painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

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Leipzig

Leipzig is the most populous city in the federal state of Saxony, Germany.

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Les Brotteaux

Brotteaux is a neighborhood in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Les Cordeliers

Les Cordeliers is one of the central quarters in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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LHC Les Lions

Lyon Hockey Club (LHC or The Lions) is the ice hockey team of Lyon, France.

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Ligue 1

Ligue 1, also called Ligue 1 Conforama for sponsorship reasons with Conforama, is a French professional league for men's association football clubs.

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List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants

Below is a list of communes in France (Overseas departments included) with a population over 20,000 at the 2013 census.

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List of movies set in Lyon

A list of movies set in Lyon, France.

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List of people from Lyon

This is a list of notable people associated with the French city of Lyon, Rhône.

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List of streets and squares in Lyon

This page lists the main streets and squares in Lyon, France.

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Lonely Planet

Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world.

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Lothair I

Lothair I or Lothar I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius, German: Lothar, French: Lothaire, Italian: Lotario) (795 – 29 September 855) was the Holy Roman Emperor (817–855, co-ruling with his father until 840), and the governor of Bavaria (815–817), Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (840–855).

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Louise Labé

Louise Labé, (c. 1524, Lyon – 25 April 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a feminist French poet of the Renaissance born in Lyon, the daughter of wealthy ropemaker Pierre Charly and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet.

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Louvre

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

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Lugdunum

Colonia Copia Claudia Augusta Lugdunum (modern: Lyon, France) was an important Roman city in Gaul.

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Lugh

Lugh or Lug (Modern Irish: Lú) is an important god of Irish mythology.

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Lugus

Lugus was a deity of the Celtic pantheon.

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Luigi Alamanni

Luigi Alamanni (sometimes spelt Alemanni) (6 March 149518 April 1556) was an Italian poet and statesman.

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Lumière University Lyon 2

Lumière University Lyon 2 (Université Lumière Lyon 2) is one of the three universities that comprise the current University of Lyon, having splintered from an older university of the same name, and is primarily based on two campuses in Lyon itself.

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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 Cathedral

Lyon Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon) is a Roman Catholic church located on Place Saint-Jean in Lyon, France.

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Lyon Dubai City

Lyon Dubaï City is a project being developed by the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

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Lyon Metropolis

Metropolitan Lyon (métropole de Lyon), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon"), is a French territorial collectivity located in the east-central region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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Lyon OU

Lyon Olympique Universitaire or LOU is a French rugby union team that currently competes in the Top 14, the highest level of the country's professional league system, having been most recently promoted for the 2016–17 season after winning the 2015–16 title of the second-level Pro D2.

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Lyon Tablet

The Lyon Tablet is an ancient bronze tablet that bears the transcript of a speech given by the Roman emperor Claudius.

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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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Lyon Villeurbanne XIII

Lyon Villeurbanne XIII are a semi-professional rugby league club from the town of Lyon, Rhône-Alpes in France.

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Lyon–Bron Airport

Lyon–Bron Airport (Aéroport de Lyon-Bron) is an airport located in Bron, east of Lyon, both communes of the Rhône department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.

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Lyon–Saint-Exupéry Airport

Lyon–Saint Exupéry Airport (Aéroport de Lyon-Saint Exupéry), formerly known as Lyon Satolas Airport, is the international airport of Lyon, the third-biggest city in France and an important transport facility for the entire Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

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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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Lyonnaise cuisine

Lyonnaise cuisine refers to cooking traditions and practices centering on the area around the French city of LyonKindersley, Dorling (2011).

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Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180 AD) was Roman emperor from, ruling jointly with his adoptive brother, Lucius Verus, until Verus' death in 169, and jointly with his son, Commodus, from 177.

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Marie Bourgeois

Marie Bourgeois (1870-1937) was a French chef who gained three Michelin stars from 1933 to 1937 for her restaurant in Priay in the Ain region, France.

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Marina Anissina

Marina Vyacheslavovna Anissina (Марина Вячеславовна Анисина, born 30 August 1975) is a French-Russian ice dancer.

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Marron glacé

A marron glacé (plural marrons glacés) is a confection, originating in southern France and northern Italy consisting of a chestnut candied in sugar syrup and glazed.

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Marseille

Marseille (Provençal: Marselha), is the second-largest city of France and the largest city of the Provence historical region.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a 1st-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran.

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Maurice Scève

Maurice Scève (c. 1501–c. 1564), was a French poet active in Lyon during the Renaissance period.

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Merial

Merial is a multinational animal health company.

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Metallic tower of Fourvière

The Tour métallique de Fourvière ("Metallic tower of Fourvière"), a landmark of Lyon, France, is a steel framework tower which bears a striking resemblance to the Eiffel Tower, which predates it by three years.

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Meyzieu

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

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Michel Delacroix (painter)

Michel Delacroix (born 1933) is a French painter in the "naif" style.

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Michel Noir

Michel Noir(born 19 May 1944) is a French politician.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

The, also known as MEXT, Monka-shō, and formerly the, is one of the ministries of the Japanese government.

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Minsk

Minsk (Мінск,; Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Most livable cities in the world

The world's most liveable cities is an informal name given to any list of cities as they rank on an annual survey of living conditions.

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Municipal arrondissements of France

In France, a municipal arrondissement is a subdivision of the commune, and is used in the country's three largest cities: Paris, Lyon and Marseille.

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Musée des Automates

The Musée des Automates in Lyon, France, has a collection of 250 automatic puppets, all of them moving and made in the museum workshop.

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Musée des Confluences

The Musée des Confluences is a science centre and anthropology museum which opened on 20 December 2014 in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, (Rhône), France.

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Musée Gadagne

The Musée Gadagne is a museum located in the center of the Vieux Lyon, in the Saint-Jean quarter, in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon.

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Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon

The Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon.

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Museum of Textiles (Lyon)

The Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs is a museum in the city of Lyon, France.

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Napoleon

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.

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National Convention

The National Convention (Convention nationale) was the first government of the French Revolution, following the two-year National Constituent Assembly and the one-year Legislative Assembly.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Neighbourhood

A neighbourhood (British English), or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences), is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area.

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Nicolas Poussin

Nicolas Poussin (June 1594 – 19 November 1665) was the leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome.

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Norbert Dentressangle

Norbert Dentressangle is a major European transport, logistics and freight forwarder.

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Nuits de Fourvière

The Nuits de Fourvière (Nights of Fourvière) is a festival with theater, circus, music, dance, and film presentations.

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Nuits Sonores

Nuits Sonores is an electronic music festival based at Lyon in France.

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Oceanic climate

An oceanic or highland climate, also known as a marine or maritime climate, is the Köppen classification of climate typical of west coasts in higher middle latitudes of continents, and generally features cool summers (relative to their latitude) and cool winters, with a relatively narrow annual temperature range and few extremes of temperature, with the exception for transitional areas to continental, subarctic and highland climates.

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Odeon of Lyon

The Odeon of Lyon (Odéon antique de Lyon) is a small ancient Roman theatre near the summit of the Fourvière hill in Lyon, France.

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Olivier Schoenfelder

Olivier Schoenfelder (born 30 November 1977) is a French ice dancer.

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Olympique Lyonnais

Olympique Lyonnais, commonly referred to as simply Lyon or OL, is a French football club based in Lyon.

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Olympique Lyonnais Féminin

Olympique Lyonnais Féminin (commonly referred to as Olympique Lyon, Lyon, or simply OL) is a French women's football club based in Lyon.

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Opéra National de Lyon

Opéra de Lyon, legally “Opéra National de Lyon” but marketed during the last decade under the shorter name, is an opera company in Lyon, France, based and performing mostly at the Opéra Nouvel, an 1831 theater that was modernized and architecturally transformed in 1993.

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Opéra Nouvel

The Opéra Nouvel (Nouvel Opera House) in Lyon, France is the home of the Opéra National de Lyon.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou (Mossi) is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural, and economic centre of the nation.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Palais des congrès de Lyon

The Palais des Congrès de Lyon (or "Cité des Congrès de Lyon" or "Centre de Congrès de Lyon") is a convention hall which is part of the Cité Internationale, a newly built district of Lyon, France.

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Panzani

Panzani is a French brand of pasta.

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Paolo Veronese

Paolo Caliari, known as Paolo Veronese (1528 – 19 April 1588), was an Italian Renaissance painter, based in Venice, known for large-format history paintings of religion and mythology, such as The Wedding at Cana (1563) and The Feast in the House of Levi (1573).

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Parc de Gerland

Parc de Gerland, also called Parc du Confluent, is a large greenspace in Lyon situated on a former industrial site in the south of the city near the confluence of the Rhône and the Saone.

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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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Parc de Lacroix-Laval

Parc de Lacroix-Laval or Domaine de Lacroix-Laval is a park in the Rhône department in Marcy-l'Étoile, France.

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Parc de Parilly

Parc de Parilly is an urban park in the neighborhoods of Bron and Vénissieux, Lyon.

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Parc Olympique Lyonnais

Parc Olympique Lyonnais, known for sponsorship reasons as Groupama Stadium and in some competitions as Stade de Lyon or Grand Stade de Lyon, is a 59,186-seat stadium in Décines-Charpieu, in the Lyon Metropolis.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Patinoire Charlemagne

The Patinoire Charlemagne is an ice rink in Lyon, France, located in the Confluence quarter, in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Paul Bocuse

Paul Bocuse (11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon who was known for the high quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist.

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Pécs

Pécs (known by alternative names) is the fifth largest city of Hungary, located on the slopes of the Mecsek mountains in the south-west of the country, close to its border with Croatia.

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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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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist.

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Philibert de l'Orme

Philibert de l'Orme (3-9 June 1514 – 8 January 1570) was a French architect and writer, and one of the great masters of the French Renaissance.

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Place Bellecour

La Place Bellecour is a large square in the centre of Lyon, France, to the north of the Ainay district.

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Place des Terreaux

The Place des Terreaux is a square located in the center of Lyon, France on the Presqu'île between the Rhône and the Saône, at the foot of the hill of La Croix-Rousse in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.

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Prefectures in France

A prefecture (préfecture) in France may refer to.

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Presqu'île

The Presqu’île (French for "peninsula") is the heart of Lyon, France.

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Primate (bishop)

Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some archbishops in certain Christian churches.

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Quenelle

A quenelle is a mixture of creamed fish or meat, sometimes combined with breadcrumbs, with a light egg binding, formed into an egg-like shape, and then cooked.

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Radical Party (France)

The Radical Party (Parti radical, also Parti radical valoisien, abbreviated to Rad.) was a liberal and social-liberal political party in France.

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Rally for the Republic

The Rally for the Republic (Rassemblement pour la République; RPR), was a Neo-Gaullist and conservative political party in 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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Regions of France

France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

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Renaissance

The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 14th and early 17th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Renault Trucks

Renault Trucks is a French commercial truck and military vehicle manufacturer with corporate headquarters at Saint-Priest near Lyon.

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Renzo Piano

Renzo Piano, (born 14 September 1937) is an Italian architect and engineer.

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Republican-Socialist Party

The Republican-Socialist Party (Parti républicain-socialiste) was a French socialist political party during the French Third Republic, founded in 1911 and dissolved in 1934.

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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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Rhône-Alpes

Rhône-Alpes (Arpitan: Rôno-Arpes; Ròse-Aups; Rodano-Alpi) is a former administrative region of France.

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Rhônexpress

Rhônexpress is an express tram-train service which links central Lyon, France, with its airport, Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, and the TGV train station located there.

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Robert de Cotte

Robert de Cotte (1656 – 15 July 1735) was a French architect-administrator, under whose design control of the royal buildings of France from 1699, the earliest notes presaging the Rococo style were introduced.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lyon (Latin: Archidioecesis Lugdunensis; French: Archidiocèse de Lyon), formerly the Archdiocese of Lyon–Vienne–Embrun, is a Roman Catholic Metropolitan archdiocese in France.

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Roman roads

Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Roman Senate

The Roman Senate (Senatus Romanus; Senato Romano) was a political institution in ancient Rome.

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Rosette de Lyon

Rosette de Lyon is a cured saucisson or French pork sausage.

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Rugby league

Rugby league football is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field.

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Rugby union

Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Saône

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

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Saint Pothinus

Saint Pothinus (Saint Pothin) was the first bishop of Lyon and the first bishop of Gaul.

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Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne (Sant-Etiève; Saint Stephen) is a city in eastern central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, on the trunk road that connects Toulouse with Lyon.

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Saint-Just (Lyon)

Saint-Just (pronounced Saint-Ju) is a quarter in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon, on the Fourvière hill.

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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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Saint-Paul (Lyon)

Saint-Paul is a quarter located in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Saint-Priest, Rhône

Saint-Priest (Sant-Priést) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Sainte Marie de La Tourette

Sainte Marie de La Tourette is a Dominican Order priory, located on a hillside near Lyon, France designed by the architect Le Corbusier, the architect’s final and most important building.

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Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon

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

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Sanofi Pasteur

Sanofi Pasteur is the vaccines division of the multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

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Santiago Calatrava

Santiago Calatrava Valls (born 28 July 1951) is a Spanish architect, structural design and analyst engineer, sculptor and painter, particularly known for his bridges supported by single leaning pylons, and his railway stations, stadiums, and museums, whose sculptural forms often resemble living organisms.

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Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus (Lucius Septimius Severus Augustus; 11 April 145 – 4 February 211), also known as Severus, was Roman emperor from 193 to 211.

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Silk Road

The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and West.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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Socialist Party (France)

The Socialist Party (Parti socialiste, PS) is a social-democratic political party in France, and the largest party of the French centre-left.

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St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

The St.

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St. Louis

St.

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Stade de Gerland

The Stade de Gerland (known for sponsorship reasons as Matmut Stadium de Gerland and otherwise known as Municipal de Gerland or Stade Gerland) is a stadium in the city of Lyon, France which serves as home to Top 14 rugby club Lyon OU.

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Subtropics

The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.

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Temple du Change

The Temple du Change or Loge du Change, formerly used for the stock exchange of Lyon, stands in Vieux Lyon (5th arrondissement of Lyon).

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TGV

The TGV (Train à Grande Vitesse, "high-speed train") is France's intercity high-speed rail service, operated by the SNCF, the state-owned national rail operator.

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Théâtre des Célestins

The Théâtre des Célestins is a theatre building on Place des Célestins in Lyon, France.

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Tintoretto

Tintoretto (born Jacopo Comin, late September or early October, 1518 – May 31, 1594) was an Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Venetian school.

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Tony Garnier (architect)

Tony Garnier (August 13, 1869 in Lyon – January 19, 1948 in Roquefort-la-Bédoule, France) was a noted architect and city planner.

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Top 14

The Top 14 is a professional rugby union club competition that is played in France created in 1892.

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Tour Incity

The Tour Incity is a skyscraper office in Lyon, France.

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Tour Oxygène

The Tour Oxygène (Oxygen Tower in English) is a skyscraper which rises 28 levels in the district of La Part-Dieu in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon, France.

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Tour Part-Dieu

The Tour Part-Dieu (formerly Tour du Crédit Lyonnais, or Le Crayon) is a skyscraper in Lyon, France.

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Tour Swiss Life

The Tour Swiss Life is a skyscraper of offices located in La Part-Dieu quarter, in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon.

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Traboule

Traboules (from Latin transambulare via vulgar Latin trabulare meaning "to cross") are a type of passageway primarily associated with the city of Lyon, France, but also located in the French cities of Villefranche-sur-Saône, Mâcon, Saint-Étienne, along with a few in Chambéry). In Lyon, they were originally used by silk manufacturers and other merchants to transport their products.

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Transports en commun lyonnais

The Transports en commun lyonnais (Lyon public transport in French) (usually referred to as TCL) is the Lyon public transport agency.

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Treaty of Verdun

The Treaty of Verdun, signed in August 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, who was the son of Charlemagne.

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Trolleybuses in Lyon

The Lyon trolleybus system (Réseau de trolleybus de Lyon) is part of the public transport network of the city and commune of Lyon, France.

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Trompe-l'œil

Trompe-l'œil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

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Turin

Turin (Torino; Turin) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy.

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UEFA Women's Champions League

The UEFA Women's Champions League, previously called the UEFA Women's Cup (2001–09), is an international women's association football competition.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Union for French Democracy

The Union for French Democracy (Union pour la Démocratie Française, UDF) was a centre-right political party in France.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Urban area (France)

An aire urbaine (literal and official translation: "urban area") is an INSEE (France's national statistics bureau) statistical concept describing a core of urban development and the extent of its commuter activity.

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Urban Community of Lyon

The Urban Community of Lyon (Communauté urbaine de Lyon), also known as Grand Lyon (i.e. "Greater Lyon") or by its former acronym COURLY, is the former intercommunal structure gathering the city of Lyon (France) and some of its suburbs.

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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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Vélo'v

Vélo'v is a bicycle sharing system run by the city of Lyon, France, in conjunction with the advertising company JCDecaux.

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Vénissieux

Vénissieux (Vènissiœx in the Lyonnais dialect of Arpitan language) is a commune in the Metropolis of Lyon in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in eastern France.

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Vichy France

Vichy France (Régime de Vichy) is the common name of the French State (État français) headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II.

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Victor Augagneur

Victor Augagneur (16 May 1855 – 23 April 1931) was a French politician.

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Vienne, Isère

Vienne (Vièna) is a commune in southeastern France, located south of Lyon, on the river Rhône.

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Vieux Lyon

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

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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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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Web@cademie

Web@cademie is a private, nonprofit and tuition-free computer programming school created and funded by French IONIS Education Group with several partners including Epitech and Zup de Co association.

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Wesford

Wesford Grenoble Graduate Business School was created in 1987 in Grenoble, Lyon and Geneva, France.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Worms, Germany

Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, situated on the Upper Rhine about south-southwest of Frankfurt-am-Main.

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Yerevan

Yerevan (Երևան, sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities.

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Yokohama

, literally "Port to the side" or "Beside the port", is the second largest city in Japan by population, after Tokyo, and the most populous municipality of Japan.

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1998 FIFA World Cup

The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national association football teams.

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1st arrondissement of Lyon

The 1st arrondissement of Lyon, France is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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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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2nd arrondissement of Lyon

The 2nd arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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3rd arrondissement of Lyon

The 3rd arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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4th arrondissement of Lyon

The 4th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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5th arrondissement of Lyon

The 5th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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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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7th arrondissement of Lyon

The 7th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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8th arrondissement of Lyon

The 8th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the 9 arrondissements of Lyon.

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9th arrondissement of Lyon

The 9th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the nine arrondissements of the City of Lyon.

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References

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

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