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INTRODUCTION TO GALLERY Press Esc to close INTRODUCTION TO LYON GALLERY Roman ruins share a hill above the city of Lyon with the Basilique Notre Dame de Fourviere, but the heart of Lyon lies between the Rhone and Saone Rivers, with their numerous bridges, to the Confluence Museum. Cobblestone streets, elaborate building edifices, and partially revealed large stone walls and arches next to ultra-modern trams. Still, Lyon's fame rests mostly for its food, Chef Paul Bocuse and its bouchons. Lyon is less cheerfully known as the place where Nazi Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon," honed his skills as a torturer before the Americans surreptitiously carted him off to Bolivia to use his expertise against Bolivian communists. Decades later he was brought back to France and tried for his war crimes, but his defense counsel called out the hypocrisy of the French who had committed similar crimes in their colonial possessions such as Vietnam and Algeria.
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	MOSAIC OF GUIGNOL	SUN SIGN	LAMP POST	TRIBUTE TO THE THOUSANDS OF RHONE JEWS TORTURED AND EXECUTED, DEPORTED AND EXTERMINATED IN 1942, 1943 AND 1944. MAY THE PLACES OF THEIR MARTYRDOM REMAIN GRAVE IN OUR MEMORY: FORT MONTLUC, SCHOOL OF MILITARY HEALTH, HOTEL TERMINUS, RUE SAINTE CATHERINE, RUE SAINTE HELEN , IMPASSE CATELIN, VENISSIEUX CAMP, NYRON, RILLIEUX, DORIEUX BRIDGE, BRON, SAINT GENIS LAVAL. MAY THOSE WHO, AT THEIR OWN PERIL, HAVE TRIED TO HELP THEM, BE THANKED FOREVER.	TO OUR 300 FELLOW LYONNAIS STUDENTS WHO FELL FROM 1939 TO 1945 FOR STUDENT HONOR, FOR THE FRENCH HOMELAND AND FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE WORLD.	TO FLIGHT LIEUTENANT ALBERT CHAMBONNET, 1903-1944, HEAD OF TEH SECRET ARMY REGION OF LYON. ON OF THE PUREST AND NOBLEST FIGURES OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCE. COWARDLY MURDERED BY THE GERMANS AT PLACE BELLECOUR ON JULY 27, 1944. HIS FRIENDS.	HERE IN 1944 IN THIS BUILDING USURPED BY THE GERMANS, THE GESTAPO AND ITS FRENCH ACCOMPLICES [LED BY KLAUS BARBIE, "THE BUTCHER OF LYON,"] TORTURED THE INTERNEES OF MONTLUC [PRISON]. IN MEMORY OF THE ASSOCIATION OF SURVIVORS FROM MONTLUC.
	MARGUERITE BUFFARD-FLAVIEN. FORMER STUDENT OF JEAN LACROIX, ANTI-FASCIST ACTIVIST, ARRESTED ON JUNE 10, 1944 BY THE FRENCH MILITIA--AND NOT THE GESTAPO--WHICH OCCUPIED THIS BUILDING, DIED HERE DEFENESTRATED ON JUNE 13 RATHER THAN RISKING SPEAKING UNDER TORTURE.	HERE ARE BURIED ON JUNE 29, 1944 7 JEWISH MARTYRS SHOT BY THE BARBARIANS. ORIGINALLY ATTACHED TO THE WALL OF THE RILLIEUX-LA-PAPE CEMETERY IN FRONT OF WHICH THE BODIES OF THE 7 JEWISH VICTIMS SHOT BY THE MILITIA ON JUNE 29, 1944 HAD BEEN FOUND, THIS COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE WAS BROKEN ON THE NIGHT OF MAY 17-18, 1994. LESS THAN A MONTH EARLIER, THE TRIAL OF THE FORMER MILITIAMAN PAUL TOUVIER, RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RILLIEUX-LA-PAPE MASSACRE, HAD JUST ENDED, SENTENECED AS SUCH BY THE COURT OF APPEAL OF VERSAILLES TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.	STREETCAR	STREETCAR	STREETCAR	LA MUR DES CANUTS	LA FRESQUE DES LYONNAISE