Rue du Président-Édouard-Herriot
| Former name(s) | Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville |
|---|---|
| Location | 2nd arrondissement of Lyon, Lyon, France |
| Postal code | 69002 |
| Coordinates | 45°45′48″N 4°50′03″E / 45.76336°N 4.834196°E |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | 19th century |
The Rue Édouard-Herriot (or Rue du Président-Édouard-Herriot) is one of the most important shopping streets of the Presqu'île in Lyon. It links the two most famous places of the city, the Place Bellecour (south) and the Place des Terreaux (north). Its northern part is located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, but the main part of the street is in the 2nd arrondissement. In its southern part, the street passes through the Place des Jacobins. It belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Claude-Marius Vaïsse, then prefect of the Rhône and also assuming the duties of mayor, decided to restructure the Presqu'île in the manner of Georges Eugène Haussmann in Paris. In the first plan drawn in 1853, a new street connected the current Place de la République to the Place des Terreaux. Finally, the new axis, which was named rue de l'Impératrice, was built in the 1860s in a straight line between Place Bellecour and Place des Terreaux. The avenue began from Place Le Viste, widened at the same time, and crossed the Place des Jacobins, which then took its final form. The street widened and formed two new small squares which were named in 1930 (Place Francisque Regaud in 1931 and Place Antoine-Isaac Rivoire in 1934). The new street included part of the existing streets :
After the fall of Napoleon III in 1870, the street was renamed rue de l'Hôtel de Ville. A few months after Mayer Édouart Herriot's death in 1957, the street was renamed after its name, after deliberation of the municipal council on 17 June of the same year.
Most buildings along this street were built in the second part of the nineteenth century and have numerous ornaments (devils, virgins, kings, angels...). There are also two older buildings that slightly break the perfect alignment of the street, the numbers 21 and 23 : they correspond to the eastern part of the ancient rue de la Sirène. Further in the north, the facade of the Abbey of Saint-Pierre (now Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon), with a grand entrance between two columns, which was formerly on the Rue de Clermont, dating from the seventeenth century.
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