Rue de la Bourse
Type | Street |
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Location | 1st and 2nd arrondissements of Lyon, Lyon, France |
Postal code | 69001, 69002 |
Coordinates | 45°45′54″N 4°50′13″E / 45.764881°N 4.83688°E |
The Rue de la Bourse is a street located mainly in the 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, and also in the 1st arrondissement. It starts on the Place des Cordeliers, in the 2nd arrondissement, in front of the Église Saint-Bonaventure, and ends at right angles to the Rue du Bât-d'Argent, beyond which it is extended by the Rue du Garet.
History
The street was named after the
A college was created in 1519 by members of the Brotherhood of the Trinity and became in 1527 the Collège de la Trinité with William Durand as first director. On 1 May 1565, it was transformed into a Jesuit company. In 1607, the new college Collège-lycée Ampère was built after plans by Étienne Martellange, and Archbishop Denis-Simon de Marquemont blessed the first stone. After being enlarged in 1619 and destroyed by fire in 1644, it was given to the Oratorians in 1763.[5]
The street was built by the main contractors of the rue Impériale (current rue de la Republique), which were 58, gathered in company under the stewardship of Guigue. At the time, the architecture of the street was made by Échernier who was the manager.[6]
Architecture
The long facades are stretched in a repetitive process.[7] At numbers 29-31, there is the Chapelle de la Trinité, a baroque-style church built in the 17th century.
To the west, the house with a big drum engraved above the door, in which famous revolutionary Marie Joseph Chalier lived, was built in 1670. Then there are buildings constructed mostly around 1850. In front of them, at the corner with rue Gential, there is a
At No. 2, there is a carved sign above the door with the words "Au grand tambour". The facade of the No. 2 on the square was made by Bresson and the caryatids by Guillaume Bonnet.[9]
References
- ISBN 2-7171-0453-4.
- ^ Vanario, Mauriace; Henri Hours (1990). Les rues de Lyon à travers les siècles: XIVe au XXe (in French). p. 45.
- ^ a b "Rue de la Bourse" (in French). Rues de Lyon. Retrieved 3 December 2009.
- ^ Brun De La Valette, Robert (1969). Lyon et ses rues (in French). Paris: Le Fleuve. p. 120.
- ^ Maynard, Louis (1932). Dictionnaire des lyonnaiseries — Les hommes. Le sol. Les rues. Histoires et légendes (in French). Vol. 1 (1982 ed.). Lyon: Jean Honoré. pp. 286–92.
- ^ Chambert, Charles Joseph (1860). Lyon descriptif, monumental et industriel et ses environs: guide des étrangers (in French). Lyon. pp. 309–10. Retrieved 29 January 2010.
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- ISBN 978-2-911491-57-3.