Lyon Sights

  1. Fresque des Lyonnais

    West of place des Terreaux, some 25 famous Lyonnais peer out from the seven-storey Fresque des Lyonnais, a wall mural featuring loom inventor Joseph-Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), Renaissance poet Maurice Scève (c 1499-c 1560), superstar chef Paul Bocuse and the yellow-haired Little Prince, created by Lyon-born author Antoine de St-Exupéry (1900-44).

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