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Place Ambroise-Courtois
Place Ambroise-Courtois is a square in the neighborhood of Monplaisir in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. It was named after , a city councillor, on 30 October 1944, months after Courtois was assassinated by the Milice française. It had been previously named Place de Monplaisir. The square is bordered by to the south and to the north. Buildings and monuments * At the north end of the square is a monument to Auguste and Louis Lumière, who were the inventors of the cinematograph and lived in a villa adjacent to the square. * The Institut Lumière, located at the west end of the square, is the former home of the Lumière brothers. * There is a bust of Ambroise Courtois at the south end of the square. * There is a bandstand in the middle of the square. Plaque place Ambroise-Courtois.jpg, The street sign for the square Marché du soir - place Courtois - Lyon.jpg, Night market at Place Ambroise-Courtois See also * List of streets and squares in Lyon This article lists the ...
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Vue De La Place Ambroise-Courtois
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Monplaisir, Lyon
Monplaisir is a historical district (quarter) of Lyon, France, now situated in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. It is centered on the Ambroise Courtois Square Place Ambroise-Courtois is a square in the neighborhood of Monplaisir in the 8th arrondissement of Lyon. It was named after , a city councillor, on 30 October 1944, months after Courtois was assassinated by the Milice française. It had been pre ..., formerly the Monplaisir Square. In the southeast of the 8th arrondissement there is the Monplaisir-la-Plaine quarter, or simply La-Plaine. In the second half of the 19th Century and at the beginning of the 20th Century this place was known for rose breeding with nurseries owned by rose growers such as Joseph Bonnaire or Jean-Baptiste André Guillot.Nathalie Ferrand, ''Créateurs de roses à la conquête des marchés (1820-1939)'', Presses universitaires de Grenoble, coll. « La Pierre & L'Écrit », 2015 References External links Website for the 8th Arrondissement's Off ...
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8th Arrondissement Of Lyon
The 8th arrondissement of Lyon is one of the 9 arrondissements of Lyon. Geography Quarters * Le Bachut * Monplaisir Ville * Monplaisir La Plaine, usually known as La Plaine * Mermoz Nord * Mermoz Sud * Les États-Unis * Le Transvaal * Laënnec * Le Grand Trou Streets * Avenue Berthelot * Boulevard des États-Unis * Avenue Jean Mermoz * Place Ambroise-Courtois * Place du 7 novembre * Place Général André * Avenue Paul Santy Monuments * Musée urbain Tony-Garnier * Maison de la danse * Médiathèque du Bachut Demography Transports The 8th arrondissement is the beginning of the A43 motorway (to Grenoble and Chambéry Chambéry (, , ; Arpitan: ''Chambèri'') is the prefecture of the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. The population of the commune of Chambéry was 58,917 as of 2019, while the population of the Chamb ...). References External links Official website {{BouchesRhône-geo-stub ...
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Milice Française
The ''Milice française'' (French Militia), generally called ''la Milice'' (literally ''the militia'') (), was a political paramilitary organization created on 30 January 1943 by the Vichy regime (with German aid) to help fight against the French Resistance during World War II. The Milice's formal head was Prime Minister Pierre Laval, although its Chief of operations and ''de facto'' leader was Secretary General Joseph Darnand. It participated in summary executions and assassinations, helping to round up Jews and ''résistants'' in France for deportation. It was the successor to Darnand's '' Service d'ordre légionnaire'' (SOL) militia. The Milice was the Vichy regime's most extreme manifestation of fascism. Ultimately, Darnand envisaged the Milice as a fascist single party political movement for the French state. The Milice frequently used torture to extract information or confessions from those whom they interrogated. The French Resistance considered the Milice more danger ...
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Auguste And Louis Lumière
The Lumière brothers (, ; ), Auguste Lumière, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas Lumière (19 October 1862 – 10 April 1954) and Louis Lumière, Louis Jean Lumière (5 October 1864 – 6 June 1948), were French manufacturers of photography equipment, best known for their cinematograph, ''Cinématographe'' motion picture system and the short films they produced between 1895 and 1905, which places them among the earliest filmmakers. Their screening of a single film on 22 March 1895 for around 200 members of the "Society for the Development of the National Industry" in Paris was probably the first presentation of Movie projector, projected film. Their first commercial public screening on 28 December 1895 for around 40 paying visitors and invited relations has traditionally been regarded as the birth of cinema. Either the techniques or the business models of earlier filmmakers proved to be less viable than the breakthrough presentations of the Lumières. History The Lumière brothers ...
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Cinematograph
Cinematograph or kinematograph is an early term for several types of motion picture film mechanisms. The name was used for movie cameras as well as film projectors, or for complete systems that also provided means to print films (such as the Cinématographe Lumière). History A device by this name was invented and patented as the "Cinématographe Léon Bouly" by French inventor Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. Bouly coined the term "cinematograph," from the Greek for "writing in movement."Abel, Richard. Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2004. Due to a lack of money, Bouly could not develop his ideas properly and maintain his patent fees, so the Lumière brothers were free to adopt the name. In 1895, they applied it to a device that was mostly their own invention. The Lumière brothers made their first film, '' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory'' (''Sortie de l'usine Lumière de Lyon''), that same year. The first commercial, public screening of ci ...
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Institut Lumière
The Institut Lumière (; "Lumière Institute") is a French organisation, based in Lyon, for the promotion and preservation of aspects of French film making. The Institut Lumière is a museum that honours the contribution to filmmaking by Auguste and Louis Lumière - inventors of the cinématographe and fathers of the cinema. It was founded in 1982 by Bernard Chardère and Maurice Trarieux-Lumière, the grandson of Louis Lumière. Bertrand Tavernier was its president and Thierry Frémaux is its director. The museum is located within the house of the Lumière family, in the Monplaisir quarter of Lyon. The film ''La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon'', one of the earliest motion pictures ever made, was shot in the immediate vicinity of the Institut. The rehabilitation of the former Lumière factories was confided to the architect Pierre Colboc and the Chief architect of historic monuments Didier Repellin, associated with the agency dUCKS Scéno Duck is the common name for ...
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List Of Streets And Squares In Lyon
This article lists the main streets and squares in Lyon, France. A * Place Ambroise-Courtois * Place Ampère * Rue Antoine Sallès * Cours Albert Thomas * Rue de l'Arbre-Sec * Rue des Archers * Passage de l'Argue * Rue Armand Calliat, named for Thomas-Joseph Armand-Calliat, goldsmith, who died in Lyon in 1901. * Place d'Arsonval * Rue d'Austerlitz B * Rue du Bât-d'Argent * Boulevard des Belges * Place Bellecour * Place Benoît-Crépu * Rue du Sergent Blandan * Rue Bichat * Rue Bossuet * Rue des Bouquetiers * Rue de la Bourse * Boulevard des Brotteaux * Rue de Brest * Rue Burdeau * Rue du Bœuf * Rue Bugeaud * Avenue Berthelot C * Boulevard des Canuts * Rue des Capucins * Montée des Carmélites * Place Carnot * Rue du Président Carnot * Place des Célestins * Cours Charlemagne * Rue des Chartreux * Rue Chevreul * Rue Claudia * Rue Constantine * Rue de Créqui * Place Croix-Paquet * Boulevard de la Croix-Rousse * Grande rue de la Croix-Rousse * Place de la Cr ...
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