Olympique Lyonnais, commonly referred to as simply Lyon or OL, is a French professional football club based in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. With origins dating back to 1899, they were founded in 1950 and provisionally compete in France's second highest football division, Ligue 2. The club won its first Ligue 1 championship in 2002, beginning a national record-setting streak of seven successive titles. Lyon has also won eight Trophées des Champions, five Coupes de France, and three Ligue 2 titles.
The Crédit Lyonnais was a major French bank, created in 1863 and absorbed by former rival Crédit Agricole in 2003. Its head office was initially in Lyon but moved to Paris in 1882. In the early years of the 20th century, it was the world's largest bank by total assets.
The Gang des postiches was a team of bank robbers that operated in Paris between 1981 and 1986, robbing around thirty banks.
Henri Bedimo Nsamé is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a left-back. He represented the Cameroon national team internationally from 2009 to 2016 making 51 appearances and scoring once.
The Église du Bon-Pasteur is a Roman Catholic church located at rue Neyret on the slopes of La Croix-Rousse, near the montée de la Grande Côte, in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon. Cardinal Barbarin described the church as "highly symbolic for Lyon Christians".
Michel Seydoux is a French businessman and film producer. He is also the former president and chairman of French professional football club Lille OSC.
Exit 67 is a 2010 French-Canadian (Quebec) film written and directed by Jephté Bastien.
La Scoumoune is a 1972 French film directed by José Giovanni, starring Jean Paul Belmondo, Claudia Cardinale and Michel Constantin. It is an adaptation of Giovanni's novel L'Excommunié.
BumRush is a 2011 Canadian film directed by Michel Jetté. BumRush is an independent film that was shot in Montreal in French and English and features Emmanuel Auger in the lead role of L'Kid and Bad News Brown in the role of gang leader Loosecanon. Musician and actor Bad News Brown was murdered soon after the film was shot. The film features some of his musical works. BumRush premiered on Canadian theaters on April 1, 2011.
Fabrizio Calvi was a French investigative journalist who specialized in cases involving organized crime and the secret services. He worked as a writer and journalist and was the author of several films. He wrote more than 20 books and 40 films, including Série noire au Credit Lyonnais, L'orchestre noir, Les routes de la terreur 911 and Elf, une afrique sous influence, all of which were broadcast by Arte.
Le Lyonnais may refer to:
Michel Sorin is a French football manager and former player who is an assistant manager of Olympique Lyonnais Féminin. He managed the Benin national team and—from 2011 to 2019—was the head coach of AS Vitré.
The Connection is a 2014 action crime thriller film directed by Cédric Jimenez and produced by Alain Goldman. The film was inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel (juge) and Gilles Lellouche as Gaëtan "Tany" Zampa, a drug gang ringleader. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 10 September 2014.
Le Gang is a 1977 French-Italian neo-noir crime film directed by Jacques Deray and starring Alain Delon, Xavier Depraz, Roland Bertin, Adalberto Maria Merli, Maurice Barrier and Raymond Bussières.
Be Beautiful But Shut Up is a French black-and-white crime comedy film made in 1958, directed by Marc Allégret.
An Angel on Wheels is a 1959 French-West German romantic comedy film starring Romy Schneider, Henri Vidal and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Michel Neyret is a former police chief of staff of the Direction interrégionale de la police judiciaire de Lyon. He held this role up to his indictment in 2011 for various offences.
Quay of Grenelle is a 1950 French crime drama film directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert and starring Henri Vidal, Maria Mauban and Françoise Arnoul. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film takes its title from a Paris street of the same name.
Aurélie Neyret is a French illustrator and cartoonist of bande dessinée.
Dimitri Storoge is a French actor. He is most noted for his performances as Patrick Esposito Di Napoli in the film Through the Mist , for which he received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 12th Jutra Awards in 2010, and as the young Edmond Vidal in A Gang Story , for which he was a César Award nominee for Most Promising Actor at the 37th César Awards in 2012.
