Plan of Lyons 14

Title

Plan of Lyons 14

Description

Decorative city map of Lyon, with all important houses, streets and the rivers Saone and Rhone. Publisher: Bradshaw’s Continental Railway, Steam Transit, &c. – Maps of the major cities and towns of continental Europe.

ca. 1860

Artist

Anonymus

Historical Description

Fernand Braudel remarked, ;Historians of Lyon are not sufficiently aware of the bi-polarity between Paris and Lyon, which is a constant structure in French development...from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution;.In the late 15th century, the fairs introduced by Italian merchants made Lyon the economic countinghouse of France. Even the Bourse (treasury), built in 1749, resembled a public bazaar where accounts were settled in the open air. When international banking moved to Genoa, then Amsterdam, Lyon remained the banking centre of France In 1572, Lyon was a scene of mass violence by Catholics against Protestant Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres.