Lyon Collection (page 7)

Gas-Driven Car
A rather unsafe looking gas- driven Calcott car with a huge Lyon-Spencer gas container on its roof drawfing the car itself. Owned by Lady Idina Wallace.Hope she didn t smoke

Claude Desire Barodet / Gill
Claude Desire Barodet, former teacher, Republican, Mayor of Lyon (1872), representing the National Assembly (1873-1876) and member of the Seine (1876-1896)

The Kings sailor son
A portrait of Prince Albert (1895-1952), second son of King George V and father of Queen Elizabeth II, taken during his service in the Royal Navy in the First World War

Statue of Napoleon
A sign of changing times : a statue of Napoleon I is erected at Lyon

Lyon Seat of Govt
Lyon is designated the seat of government in Gaul, by Roman emperor Augustus

Machinery at Lyon
At Lyon, Napoleon and Eugenie admire the weaving machinery, and Eugenie embroiders a flower : Napoleon is an enthusiastic advocate of industry and commerce

Meeting at Lyon
At Lyon, Napoleon and Eugenie happen to run into the dowager empress of Russia, who is staying at the Hotel de l Univers

Eugenie at Lyon
In the summer of 1869, she pays a kindly visit to an old folks home in Lyon

Assassination of Carnot
French president Carnot is assassinated by the Italian anarchist Sante Caserio in Lyon

Anarchist Outrages 9
The body of president Carnot, assassinated at Lyon by the anarchist Caserio, who will be guillotined for it

Rioting at Lyon - 2
When president Carnot is assassinated by Italian anarchist Caserio, there is rioting in the streets of Lyon, where police have to protect an Italian cafe

Napoleon at Lyon
Napoleon and his wife visit Lyon, arriving by boat

Lafayette Feted in Lyon
M.J.P.Y.R.G DU M DE LAFAYETTE feted by the people of Lyon i n 1828

Capt. Ledoux Murdered
In southwest France there is considerable resistance to the Bourbon Restauration : many soldiers are attacked - in the streets of Lyon, capitaine Ledoux is murdered

Couthon at Lyon
Couthon is sent by the Convention to suppress the insurrection in Lyon : he takes the city, and orders aristocratic homes to be destroyed

Massacres at Lyon
Six thousand people are slaughtered by revolutionary forces when they finally take Lyon, which has resisted the extremist activities of the Paris authorities

Defiance at Lyon - 3
When the revolutionary army capture Lyon, which has defied the Paris government, Collot d Herbois carries out a massive destruction of property in the city

War Announced
Citizens of Lyon read the proclamation issued by Napoleon III, announcing his intention of invading Italy

French Plm Locomotive
Express locomotive of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille line, type C.61-180

George Vi / Wife / Informal
GEORGE VI & ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON An informal portrait

George Vi / Wife C1929
GEORGE VI AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH BOWES-LYON as Duke and Duchess of York with Princess Elizabeth

French Trade Card 20C
The hand-out of a French fortune-teller of Lyon - clairvoyant, palm-reader, card-teller and Secret Egyptian Work

Lyon / Cordeliers Convent
The convent of Cordeliers in Lyon

Charlotte Strathmore
CHARLOTTE MARIA (nee Barrington) countess of STRATHMORE wife of Thomas Lyon, twelfth earl

Camille De Neufville
CAMILLE DE NEUFVILLE archbishop of Lyon who believed in being friendly with protestants !

Riots at Lyon
Whatever Paris decides, Lyon objects : street fighting breaks out when the silkworkers protest against the monarchy of Louis Philippe

Talk with Peasant Woman
Incognito, he asks a peasant woman of Tarare, near Lyon, isn t Napoleon like any other tyrant ? - No, because they chose him, whereas the old kings were forced on them

Guy Lyon Playfair, researcher, investigates a poltergeist in Brazil

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