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50 unusual facts about Lyon


Appenzell District

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

Bolloré Bluecar

By early 2013 the Bolloré Group announced plans to launch a similar carsharing service in Lyon and Bordeaux, but under a different brand name and with no cost to the cities.

Centrifugal railway

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

Charlotte Lee, Countess of Lichfield

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

Clan Lyon

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

Claude Bowes-Lyon

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

Compagnie Générale des Eaux

In 1854, CGE obtained a concession in order to supply water to the public in Lyon, serving in this capacity for over a hundred years.

Étienne La Font de Saint-Yenne

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

Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers

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

Frances Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Her father was Oswald Smith, of Blendon Hall (7 July 1794 – 18 June 1863), and her mother was Henrietta Mildred Hodgson (c. 1805–1891).

Frankfurter Kantorei

The choir has performed concert tours abroad in Paris, Lyon, Venice, Turin, Vienna, Helsinki, St Petersburg, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Seattle and Toronto, among others, and first appeared in Israel in 1979.

Frederick Bakewell

He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon some 11 years before the invention of workable telephones.

Geography of the Alps

Working upstream, the River Rhône turns to the east near Lyon, and forms part of the boundary between the Alps and the Jura that ends at Lake Geneva.

Goldie Goldbloom

In 2013, she spoke at the International Forum on the Novel, run by Villa Gillet in Lyon, France, on the subject of "Portraits and Faces: Appearance and Disfigurment".

Impur II

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

Jacques Moderne

Jacques Moderne - Giacomo Moderno (Pinguente, Istria (now Buzet, Croatia), c.1495–1500 – Lyons, after 1560) was an Italian-born music publisher active in France in the Renaissance Era.

Jean-Pascal Beintus

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

Joseph Merklin

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

Juliana Morell

Accused of taking part in a murder, the father fled to Lyon with his daughter, then eight years old.

Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton

Pamela Bowes-Lyon (a granddaughter of the 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne) and cousin to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Ludovic Morlot

From 2002 to 2004, Morlot served as conductor-in-residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL), where his responsibilities included conducting the ONL's two youth orchestras.

Lyon-class battleship

The first two were named for cities in France, while the rest honored French admirals Abraham Duquesne and Anne Hilarion de Tourville.

Lyon's Inn

Lyon's Inn was a small Inn, with eighty students at its peak during the time of Elizabeth I, and educated people as noted as Sir Edward Coke and John Selden.

Michael Bowes-Lyon

Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (born 1957), former politician and former British Army officer

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

Nasser Gemayel

In 1977 he obtained a masters in philosophy at the Catholic University of Lyon in 1984 and a doctorate in literature and humanities at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Neven Maguire

He has also featured in a number of other television programmes including 10 of the Best; Neven Cooks, a 6-part series which is broadcast in South Africa, Australia and on Food Network; Cook with Love, a documentary on his participation in the World Cooking Competition in Lyon in 2002 and Neven's Food from the Sun.

Notre-Dame de l'Assomption Abbey

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

Overseas Vietnamese

Most Vietnamese in France live in Paris and the surrounding Île-de-France area, but a sizeable number also reside in the major urban centers in the south-east of the country, primarily Marseille and Lyon.

Panos Kammenos

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

Paris-Rhône

Paris-Rhône was a French producer of small three-wheeler electric cars based in Lyon.

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield

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

Patrick Bowes-Lyon

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

Pierre Dupont

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

Renata Reisfeld

Reisfeld co-organized (with Professor Georges Boulon of Lyon, France) 6 Israeli-French science conferences on Solid State Lasers and related subjects.

Rosemonde Gérard

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

Salmanticenses and Complutenses

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

Sea spider

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

Sebastian Castellio

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

Sisters of Saint Joseph of Medaille

In 1819 a foundation from the mother house in Lyon was established in the Diocese of Belley under the leadership of Mother Saint Joseph Chaney.

Softeam

Branches of the corporation are located in cities around the country, including Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Rennes, and Sophia-Antipolis.

Strathmore, Alberta

The CPR named the town after one of its benefactors: Claude Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of Strathmore.

Sylvester Gozzolini

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

The Sun Eats Hours

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

Transport in Le Havre

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

Veratalpa

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

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

Victor Grignard

François Auguste Victor Grignard (May 6, 1871 in Cherbourg - December 13, 1935 in Lyon) was a Nobel Prize-winning French chemist.

Walter Pilliet

He was born in Lyon on 8 February 1840 to an English mother and French father.

Zofia Chądzyńska

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


1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon

The 1997 Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Palais des Sports de Gerland in Lyon in France and was part of the World Series of the 1997 ATP Tour.

2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season

Lyon, who lost the promotion final the previous year, established themselves as a candidate for the title from early on in the season along with recently relegated Albi.

48May

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

Augustine Warner, Jr.

His daughter Mildred was the grandmother of Washington, while his daughter Mary is an ancestor of the Queen's mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon.

Banning Lyon

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

Catalan Talgo

Instead of Grenoble the electrified tracks via Lyon were used, allowing the entire Geneva – Narbonne route section to be worked by an SNCF BB 9300 class locomotive.

Celestines

The founder, having heard that it was probable that Pope Gregory X, then holding a council at Lyon, would suppress all such new orders as had been founded since the Lateran Council, having commanded that such institutions should not be further multiplied, went to Lyon.

CIAT group

The headquarter and main industrial site is located in France, in Culoz department of Ain, between Lyon and Geneva.

Clan MacEwen

On 11 October 2012, the Lord Lyon announced the appointment of the Honourable Adam Bruce, Marchmont Herald of Arms, as Supervising Officer for the Family Convention.

Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère, pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French author of novels set in such exotic locations as Istanbul, Saigon, and Nagasaki.

Cliché Skateboards

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

Critérium du Dauphiné

The cities that have hosted a start or finish most often are: Grenoble (44 times), Avignon (32 times), Saint-Étienne (23 times), Annecy (22 times), Chambéry (21 times), Gap (21 times), Lyon (19 times), Aix-les-Bains (18 times), Valence (16 times), Briançon (15 times) and Vals-les-Bains (15 times).

Desert Hills

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

Downtown Ottawa

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

EPSI

Later on, with the rise of the computer science industry, the school built branches in Bordeaux, Montpellier, Arras then in October 2002 in Nantes and then later in Lyon.

Gare de Bellegarde-sur-Valserine

The introduction of TGV services to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine on 22 September 1981, the completion of the autoroutes from Lyon to Geneva and the opening of the Mont Blanc Tunnel all greatly improved access to Bellegarde, enabling the town to develop through industrial restructuring which allowed Bellegarde to maintain unemployment below the national average.

Gasparo Duiffopruggar

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

George Calombaris

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

Granville Penn

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

Institut national des sciences appliquées

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

Izieu

The Gestapo, under the direction of the 'Butcher of Lyon' Klaus Barbie, entered the orphanage and forcibly removed the forty-four children and their seven supervisors, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks.

John Elphinstone, 17th Lord Elphinstone

He was a son of Sidney Buller-Fullerton-Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone, a nephew of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

John Short

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

Joseph François Michaud

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

Leilei Tian

She has been awarded the Prix de Rome, and other awards from the Besançon Composition Competition for orchestra in France, the Contemporary Music Contest "Citta' di Udine" in Italy, Composition Competition of GRAME in Lyon, Gaudeamus Competition in Amsterdam and International Society of Contemporary Music Cash Young Composer's Award.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

She joined the Socialist Party in 2002 and joined the team of Gérard Collomb, Mayor of Lyon, in 2003 leading actions to strengthen local democracy, the fight against discrimination, promotion of citizen rights, and access to employment and housing.

Orli Shaham

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

Passage SAS

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

Repas de bébé

The baby featured, Andrée Lumière, died in Lyon aged 24, as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic.

Robert Cockburn

A letter by Robert, as Bishop of Ross, in recommendation of Symphorien Champier, a doctor of medicine at Lyon and the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, was published in the compendium Que in hoc opusculo habentur: Duellum Epistolare, et, Item Complures Illustrium Virorum Epistolae ad Symphorianum Camperium, Venice/Lyons (1519).

Saint-Alban Nuclear Power Plant

The Saint-Alban nuclear power plant is located on the Rhone river, in the Isere department 50 km downstream from Lyon in the communes of Saint-Alban-du-Rhône and Saint-Maurice-l'Exil.

SNCF Class Z 23500

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

Tarik Brahmi

Born in Lyon, France with a father from Toudja, Algeria, he graduated from the Université de Montpellier in 1991 with a degree in Microelectronics and Control Engineering.

Teodora Albon

She took charge (accompanied by a team of three Romanian match officials – assistants Petruța Iugulescu and Mihaela Țepușa, and fourth official Cristina Dorcioman) of the 2013 UEFA Women's Champions League Final at Stamford Bridge in London, where VfL Wolfsburg beat Lyon 1-0 in regular time, and also officiated at two matches during UEFA Women's Euro 2013.

The Gerry Ryan Show

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

Tour du Crédit Lyonnais

In his song "Lyon Presqu'île" on the album The Superb, Benjamin Biolay (born in Villefranche-sur-Saone) includes "round in pen" in his view of the main monuments of the city.

Treaty of Meerssen

Lothair II, his heir, received only the western Lower Burgundian parts (bishoprics of Lyon, Vienne, Vivarais and Uzès) which were bordering his western Upper Burgundy (remnants of his original Burgundian possessions), while Louis II received the whole rest of the Kingdom of Provence.

Vente-privee.com

The remaining employees work in the 160,000 sqm warehouses in Blanc-Mesnil (Paris) and St. Vulbas (near Lyon).

Very Important Party

Very Important Party (VIP) is an annual demo party held from 1999 to 2002 in Saint-Priest, near Lyon (France) and from 2008 in Thoissey It is organized by PoPsY TeAm, a French demogroup from Lyon area.

VolkerRail

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

Western Australia border

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

William Lamb alias Paniter

William Lamb wrote Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Inglis merchand betuix Rowand and Lionis in 1549.