Rue de Gadagne

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Rue de Gadagne

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Facades of the street
Former name(s)
  • Rue de Boissette (1317-1493)
  • Rue tendant du Puits de la Porcherie à la Grande Maison de Pierre de Pompério (1493-1530)
  • Rue de Pierrevive (1530-1614)
Location 5th arrondissement of Lyon, Lyon, France
Postal code 69005
Construction
Construction start second half of the 3rd century
Completion 16th - 17th centuries

The Rue de Gadagne is a paved pedestrian street of the Saint-Jean quarter, in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. It extends the rue du Bœuf and ends on the rue Lainerie that leads itself to the Place Saint-Paul. It is located in the center of Vieux Lyon and is part to the area which includes a mosaic of squares : Place du Change, Place du Petit Collège and Place de la Baleine in the extension of rue Saint-Jean. The street belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO. It is served by buses 29-30-31-44-184, a metro station (Vieux-Lyon - Cathédrale Saint-Jean, line D) and three velo'v stations.

5th arrondissement of Lyon French municipal arrondissement in Rhône-Alpes, France

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Rue du Bœuf street in Lyon, France

The Rue du Bœuf is a 188-metre cobbled pedestrian street of the Vieux Lyon quarter, located in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon. Very representative of the Renaissance architecture of the neighborhood, it is lined only with old houses from the 16th or 17th century. The street connects the rue de Gadagne which it continues after the Place du Petit Collège and the intersection of the rue du Chemin Neuf, the rue de la Bombarde and the rue Tramassac which prolongs it. The street belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Rue Lainerie street in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon, France

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History

In 1317, the street was called rue de Boissette after the name of a big house "La Boissette", then in 1493 rue tendant du Puits de la Porcherie à la Grande Maison de Pierre de Pompério, [1] then in 1530, the rue Pierre-Vive or Pierrevive [2] (the street is attested under this name in 1550), [3] the name of an old Piemontese family which had moved to Lyon in the late fifteenth century. [4] Treasurer General of France Charles Pierrevive lived in the street. [5] Between 1511 and 1525, his descendants did build two twin mansions who were later turned into museums : the Musée historique de Lyon and the Musée international de la marionnette (i.e. the current Musée Gadagne, built in 1493).

Thereafter, these buildings were sold to the Gondi family, then in 1545 to the Gadagne family, a famous Lyon family who gave its name to the street in 1614. [6] Gadagne brothers, Thomas, Lord de Beauregard, and Guillaume, seneschal of Lyon in 1564, were Italian bankers. [7] Thomas Gadagne bought the hotel in 1538.

The word seneschal can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ducal, or noble household during the Middle Ages and early Modern period – historically a steward or majordomo of a medieval great house. In a medieval royal household, a seneschal was in charge of domestic arrangements and the administration of servants, which, in the medieval period particularly, meant the seneschal might oversee hundreds of laborers, servants and their associated responsibilities, and have a great deal of power in the community, at a time when the much of the local economy was often based around the wealth and responsibilities of such a household.

The street was opened in 1650 on the rue du Bœuf, then called rue Tramassac. [8] The No. 6 of the street was sold to the hospitals of Lyon. [5]

Architecture

Very representative of the Renaissance architecture of the neighborhood, the street is wide in front of the City Hall of the fifth arrondissement which is the former Jesuit college, and much more narrow in its northern part. [7] There are two restaurants.

Renaissance cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century

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At the corner of the rue de la Fronde, a statue of St. Anne can be seen, and four small old houses are open by ten arches aligned on the western side of the street. [8] The No. 2 is a building constructed in the Middle Ages/ Renaissance with three floors and mullioned windows. [9]

Middle Ages Period of European history from the 5th through the 15th centuries

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.

The most notable monument of the street is the Musée Gadagne, at Nos. 12-14, which is the biggest Renaissance building in Lyon. It was purchased by the city of Lyon in 1902, opened in 1921 and installed in the Hôtel Gadagne. Its main entrance is located on the old stables of the Place du Petit Collège. Then a spiral staircase into a polygonal tower gives access to the three floors of galleries.

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References

  1. ↑ Brun De La Valette, Robert (1969). Lyon et ses rues (in French). Paris: Le Fleuve. p. 46.
  2. ↑ Vachet, Adolphe (1902). À travers les rues de Lyon (in French) (1982, Marseille ed.). Lyon: Laffitte reprints. pp. 222–23. ISBN   2-7348-0062-4.
  3. ↑ Vanario, Maurice (2002). Rues de Lyon à travers les siècles (in French). Lyon: ELAH. p. 134. ISBN   2-84147-126-8.
  4. ↑ Desvernay, Félix. "Les rues de Lyon historiques et pittoresques" (pdf). Le Progrès (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  5. 1 2 Meynard, Louis (1932). Dictionnaire des lyonnaiseries — Les hommes. Le sol. Les rues. Histoires et légendes (in French). 3 (1982 ed.). Lyon: Jean Honoré. pp. 238–39.
  6. ↑ Bouchard, Gilbert (2000). L'histoire des rues de Lyon (in French). Grenoble: Glénat. p. 57. ISBN   2-7234-3442-7.
  7. 1 2 Pelletier, Jean (1985). Lyon pas à pas — son histoire à travers ses rues — Rive droite de la Saône, Croix-Rousse, quais et ponts de la Saône (in French). Roanne / Le Coteau: Horvath. p. 34. ISBN   2-7171-0377-5.
  8. 1 2 "Rue de Gadagne" (in French). Rues de Lyon. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  9. ↑ "Immeuble 2 rue de Gadagne, Vieux-Lyon" (in French). Vieux Lyon. Retrieved 24 January 2010.

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