The Rue Tronchet is a street located in the

6th arrondissement of Lyon 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

, named after French jurist

François Denis Tronchet François Denis Tronchet (23 March 1726 – 10 March 1806) was a French jurist, best remembered for having defended Louis XVI of France at his trial (with Malesherbes and Deseze) and for having contributed to the writing of the French civil cod ...

(1726–1804).

Location and history

The street starts on the Place du Maréchal Lyautey, in front of the Quai de Serbie and ends on the Boulevard Stalingrad which borders the

Parc de la Tête d'Or The Parc de la Tête d'or (English: "Park of the Golden Head") is a large urban park in Lyon, France, with an area of approximately . Located in the northern part of the 6th arrondissement, it features the Jardin botanique de Lyon, as well as a ...

, in

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. It ends on the wall on the track, after having previously crossed many streets, including the rue Malesharbes, rue de Vendôme,

rue de Créqui La Rue de Créqui is a very long street located in the 7th, 3rd and 6th arrondissements of Lyon. It is a long straight line along the rue Duguesclin or the rue de Vendôme, that begins on the Grande Rue de la Guillotière in the 7th arrondiss ...

rue Duguesclin The Rue Duguesclin (or Rue Du Guesclin) is a long street in Lyon crossing directly wholly the 6th and the 3rd arrondissement, and ends in the 7th arrondissement. This 2,800-meter street starts at the Boulevard des Belges and ends on the rue Ra ...

, rue Boileau,

rue Garibaldi The Rue Garibaldi is a wide and long street in Lyon, located in the 7th, 3rd and 6th arrondissements, and named after Italian politician Giuseppe Garibaldi. There was also a square named Place Garibaldi in reference to his nephews, died during ...

, rue Tête d'Or, rue Massena, rue Nay and

Boulevard des Belges The Boulevard des Belges is a wide and posh avenue located in Les Brotteaux quarter, in the 6th arrondissement of Lyon. It begins with the Quai de Grande Bretagne, runs along the southern part of the Parc de la Tête d'Or until the Avenue Verguin ...

. Originally, Jean-Antoine Morand wanted to name the street Allée des Soupirs (Alley of Sighs). The name of Tronchet was given from the

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to the section of the street located between the banks of the Rhône and the current rue Garibaldi. Beyond this part, it was called rue Bergère before 1852. From 1845, Alphonse Pugens directed the 19th-century gymnasium, located at No. 25; this establishment gained notoriety throughout years. In 1872, Professor of the Faculty of Sciences Lafon lived at No. 8. Charles Roux-Meulier draw plans for the 1890 building at No. 108. The No. 99 was donated to the Lyon hospitals. Lawyer Joannes Ambre, who gave his name to a place in Lyon, had his office in this street. During the

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, the street was the place of a shooting by Germans in which several dozen French were killed.

Architecture and monuments

The street starts with a perfectly straight alignment of 19th-century facades of three to five-floor houses. After the rue Garibaldi, the two to five-floor buildings are simple, then the alignment progressively ends notably with a sculpted facade of a hotel, two old houses and a very recent porch. After the rue Ney, there are a few bourgeois houses, the small garden Square du Capitaine Billon, and the stone facade of the Lycée du Parc in front of 20th-century buildings. Among the famous monuments and buildings in this street, there are the Buchet et Colcombet silk factory, the convent of Franciscan nuns, the school Jean Rostand, the clinical Lyon Tête d'Or, the Lycée du Parc, the gymnasium and swimming pool of the Tronchet sports complex. There are also many shops and an Armenian Catholic parish.

References

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