Montchat

The district of Montchat form the oriental party of the 3rd District of Lyon. It ends in a hillock, bordering on Bron. It accommodates several hospitals and is mainly residential.

The trade are primarily along the main axis, the course Doctor Long, and of the place of the Castle, which also accommodates the market. The quiet environment of small town of province, the presence many houses with a few kilometers only of the center of Lyon and the proximity of the hospitals do of them one of the most expensive districts of Lyon (with the 6th district), in particular required by the medical professions.

History

Montchat was in the beginning a district of Guillotière, commune attached to Lyon in 1852. Several streets carry the first names of family members allied Richard and Vitton, former owners of most of the district. These families gave each one a mayor with Guillotière. In 1868, Jean-Louis Richard-Vitton yields the grounds of streets as of its allotments to the town of Lyon, provided that it maintains them and the name does not change any. From there come the following names:
  • Street and place Antoinette
  • Street Camille
  • Street Constant Charles-Richard
  • Street (in fact Henri-Constant, even character that for the Henri place)
  • Place and old course Henri
  • Street Julie
  • Street Julien
  • Street Louis
  • Street Louise
The course Doctor Long, before Henri course, were named after the death of Long Jean, doctor and hero of the Résistance. The Eugenie course refers on the other hand to the empress Eugenie de Montijo.

Avenue Lacassagne (in the past way of the Pines) is the deposit of bus of the Pines, whose wall carries a fresco recalling the history of the Public transport Lyons.

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