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Several books and other resources of bibliographic / librarianly / "informational" interest about Lyon:
* Lyon Biennial, by Okwui Enwezor (Author), Ralph Rugoff (Author), Michel Houellebecq (Contributor), Paul Veyne (Contributor), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor), Stephanie Moisdon (Editor) (Lyon : JRP Ringier, forthcoming 2008) Hardcover: 304 pages, ISBN 3905829029, 978-3905829020.
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Publisher's description:
The curators of the ninth Lyon Biennial approached the task of mapping the moment in contemporary art playfully: by commissioning a polyphonic history and geography book. With 70 "players" from around the world, the "game" of how to define the decade unfolded via a series of delegations, invitations and programs in which artists proposed their responses, and critics and curators sequenced and challenged them, in turn suggesting artists of their own. Reframing the unfolding present from within, creatively rethinking the role of the artist as well as that of serious play, and reconsidering the now-ubiquitous and decreasingly authoritative biennial exhibition, these myriad voices, framed by only a few rules, became participants in an exercise in collective self-determination. This lavishly illustrated publication, designed by the renowned Parisian firm M/M and edited by Biennial curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Stephanie Moisdon, includes previously unpublished essays by Michel Houellebecq, Okwui Enwezor and Ralph Rugoff, and functions as a manual for "a decade yet to be named a present that is endlessly arriving."
* Histoire de Lyon : Des origines à nos jours, by André Pelletier (Auteur), Jacques Rossiaud (Auteur), Françoise Bayard (Auteur), Pierre Cayez (Auteur), Corinne Poirieux (Illustrations), (Lyon : Editions Lyonnaises d'Art et d'Histoire, 2007) Cartonné: 955 pages, ISBN 284147190X, 978-2841471904.
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Publisher's description:
Tout au long de son histoire Lyon apparaît comme un chantier permanent... Cette nouvelle éditions d'une Histoire de Lyon complète et actualisée se devait d'exister dans une ville classée au Patrimoine Mondial de l'Humanité. Un texte fort, complet, abouti, une somme de connaissances... par les meilleurs spécialistes.
[tr. JK] "Throughout its history Lyon has been a work in progress... This new edition of a complete and updated history of Lyon is a necessity, for a city classed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A text which is emphatic, complete, definitive, a summary of knowledge... by the leading specialists."
* Les débuts de la gravure sur cuivre en France : Lyon 1520-1565, by Estelle Leutrat, (Paris : Droz, 2007) Collection : Travaux Humanisme Renaissance, ISBN 2600010963, 978-2600010962.
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* Lyon, by Philippe Gloaguen, (Paris : Hachette Tourisme, 2007) Broché: 179 pages, Edition 2008, Collection : Le guide du routard, ISBN 2012441548, 978-2012441545.
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Note: Library acquisitions policies / budgets often forbid the consideration of "tour guides", and keeping up with the touring industry bibliographically is a fool's errand. Yet, as with Wikipedia or any encyclopedia and perhaps even moreso, the "tour guide" or "travel writing" often is the best first-stop for research: not the last word, but the place where ideas and interests often first occur and are initially pursued. So, with that caveat, some of the latest-date good guides to Lyon and things Lyonnais appear here too.
* Les monts du Beaujolais et du Lyonnais... à pied, by FFRandonnée, (Paris : Fédération Française de la Randonnée Pédestre, 2007) Broché: 160 pages, 3rd édition, Collection : Topoguides, ISBN 2751401570, 978-2751401572.
Note: The Monts du Lyonnais are sufficient reason, alone, to visit France and enjoy Lyon. The countryside there, and the incredible views out over the city of Lyon's plain across the Rhône to the distant Alps, are sufficient reason for living -- and if you add the local wine and cheese and people to the mix it all becomes something really special. And the Beaujolais is a nice place to go hiking, too...
* Les 7 vies de Saint-Jean : Histoire(s) de la cathédrale de Lyon, by Claudio Galleri and Corinne Paul, (Lyon : Lieux Dits, 2007) Broché: 43 pages, édition en français, ISBN 2914528396, 978-2914528399.
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7 vies de Saint-Jean : Histoire(s) de la cathédrale de Lyon
Publisher's description: [for an English translation see next entry]
Dans un monument hautement représentatif d'une communauté entière, tel que la cathédrale Saint-Jean à Lyon, de multiples histoires se sont succédées au fil des siècles. L'auteur, Claudio Galleri, a imaginé de donner la voix à plusieurs témoins de l'évolution de cette cathédrale et de son quartier, depuis la reconstruction opérée au XIIe siècle jusqu'à son actualité patrimoniale. Voici donc, dans l'ordre, Guichard, l'archevêque bâtisseur à la fin du XIIe siècle ; Arnoud de Collonges, doyen des chanoines pendant le grand concile de 1245 ; Henriet de Nivelle, maître verrier auteur en 1393 d'une nouvelle rosace pour la façade : Giovanna Albizzi, dame de l'oligarchie florentine secouée par le ravage des guerres de religion ; Antoine Bellet, consul de la ville lors du jubilé séculaire de Saint-Jean, en 1666 ; Joseph Fesch, nouvel archevêque en 1802 après la tempête révolutionnaire. Tous hommes de leur temps, ils racontent, entre réflexions et sentiments personnels, un moment clef de l'histoire de la cathédrale et, à travers elle, de la ville de Lyon.
Historien de l'art, Claudio Galleri est responsable de la collection d'estampes de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. Il a travaillé plusieurs années pour le service italien de l'Inventaire ; parmi ses publications, différents articles, monographies d'artistes et deux itinéraires de l'ouvrage Le Piéton de Lyon.
* The 7 Lives of Saint-Jean : History(ies) of the Lyon Cathedral, by Claudio Galleri, (Lyon : Lieux Dits, 2007) English language edition, ISBN 2914528434, 978-2914528436.
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7 Lives of Saint-Jean : History(ies) of the Lyon Cathedral, édition en langue anglaise
Publisher's description:
In a historical monument like Saint-Jean, highly symbolic of a community as a whole, all sorts of events have occurred over the century... The author has lent his imagination to some of those who witnessed the development of the Cathedral and its vicinity, from its reconstruction at the beginning of the 12th century to its role today. Here are the accounts of Guichard, the late 12th century archbishop and builder, Arnoud de Collonges, the Dean of the canon's chapter during the Ecumenical Council of 1245. Henriet de Nivelle, the master glazier who completed the new rose window on the West front in 1393, Giovanna Albizzi, a member of the Florentine oligarchy, severely shaken by the ravage of the religious wars, Antoine Bellet, the city's consul at the time of the jubilee of Saint John in 1666 and Joseph Fesch, the first archbishop to be appointed following the turmoil of the French revolution. Men and women of their time, they relate their thoughts and feeling during one of the key moments in the history of the Cathedral and of the city of Lyon.
Art historian Claudio Galleri is conservator of the print collection in the Municipal Library of Lyon. He also worked for an extended period for the Italian national monuments record. He has published numerous articles, monographs on artists, and two routes for a guide to Lyon on foot, Le Piéton de Lyon.
* L'école républicaine en ville : Lyon, 1870-1917, by Marianne Thivend, (Paris : Belin, 2006) Broché: 251 pages, Collection : Histoire de l'éducation, ISBN 2701143225, 978-2701143224.
* Lyon : Révolutions tranquilles, by Alice Géraud (Auteur), Anne-Sophie Zika (Photographies), Robert Marmoz (Préface), (Paris : Editions Autrement, 2006) Broché: 155 pages, Collection : Villes en mouvement, ISBN 2746708035, 978-2746708037.
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Publisher's description:
Depuis la fin des années 1980, le vernis a commencé à craquer. Lyon la catholique, industrieuse et repliée sur elle-même, n'est plus. Parce que ceux qui la font, ceux qui la vivent, ne sont tout simplement plus les mêmes. Aujourd'hui, un Lyonnais sur deux n'est pas né dans la ville. Lyon daigne enfin se regarder, s'embellir et se montrer. Architectes et urbanistes repensent et redessinent le territoire. Les lieux alternatifs grignotent et malmènent les institutions centenaires. L'art descend dans ta rue. Les cuisiniers oublient les quenelles et la bienséance. La mue n'est cependant pas uniforme. Alors que Lyon et Villeurbanne se gonflent de nouvelles énergies, le fossé social se creuse en périphérie. Sur ces terres en friche, poussent les contestataires : travailleurs sociaux militants, électrons libres de la politique. Rencontre avec vingt porteurs de projets qui ouvrent des portes, construisent, déplacent, inventent, influent... Ils n'ont pas forcément le pouvoir au sens institutionnel du terme, mais ils ont mieux : ils ont prise sur la réalité, sur les gens. Lyon vu par quelques acteurs de son changement.
[tr. JK] "At the end of the 1980's the surface began to crack. Catholic and industrious and self-sufficient Lyon was no more. This is because those who make it work, who live it, are not the same who did so before. Today one out of every two Lyonnais was not born in the city. Lyon now dares to regard itself objectively, to embellish itself, and to put itself forward. Architects and urbanists re-think and re-design the place. New solutions nibble at the old edges, and confront the centuries-old institutions. Art is out in the streets. The famous chefs forget about "les quenelles" and "la bienséance". The changes though are not uniform. While at the center Lyon and Villeurbanne are bursting with new energies, the social divide broadens out in the suburbs. On these latter barren grounds various contestants battle: militant social workers, free political spirits. Meet twenty project promoters who open doors, build things, displace things, invent, influence... They do not have power, in any institutional sense of the term, but they have better: they have a grip on reality, an understanding of the people. Lyon viewed by several of its agents of change."
Alice Géraud, journaliste, vit à Lyon depuis douze ans.
* Les grandes heures de Lyon, by Jean Etèvenaux (Auteur), (Paris : Perrin, 2005) 489 pages, ISBN 2262008949, 978-2262008949.
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Une synthèse classique et accessible à tous de l'histoire lyonnaise depuis ses origines.
Inventive, créative, cosmopolite, la ville de Lyon a rompu depuis longtemps avec la légendaire froideur qui l'a si longtemps caractérisée. Située à la croisée des mondes germanique et latin, Lyon s'est façonné au fils des siècles malgré une géographie au relief difficile. Fondée par un lieutenant de César, la ville fut tour à tour le siège du premier parlement national, capital du royaume burgonde, rattachée au royaume de Provence, puis ville libre à l'intérieur du saint Empire romain germanique.
Lyon est devenu français au XIVe siècle, il y a seulement 700 ans. La ville s'est attachée dès lors à cultiver sa différence. Elle s'est imposée dans le commerce, l'imprimerie, le cinéma, la soierie, la chimie, la construction automobile et, désormais, les nouvelles technologie. De grands noms comme ceux des frères Lumière, de Marius Berliet, de Joseph-Marie Jacquard ou d'Émile Guimet sont associés à cette réussite. À l'aube du XXIe siècle, Lyon a tourné les yeux vers l'Europe, les régions espagnoles, italiennes, suisses et allemandes - sans négliger ses anciennes liaisons, lointaines celles-là, en Afrique, au Proche-Orient et en Extrême-Orient.
Jean Etèvenaux, spécialiste de l'histoire des Lyonnais, a entièrement réactualisé cette nouvelle édition des Grandes Heures de Lyon. Docteur en histoire et diplômé de l'Institut d'études politiques, Jean Etèvenaux préside la Société des écrivains et du livre lyonnais et rhônalpins. Il est le directeur-rédacteur en chef de Missi depuis 1992 et enseigne dans diverses universités lyonnaises. Il est l'auteur d'une quinzaine de livres.
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"A synthesis, both classical and accessible, of all of the history of Lyon since its origins...
"Inventive, creative, cosmopolitan, the city of Lyon broke a long time back with the legendary coldness which for so long had characterized it. Situated at the crossroads of the Germanic and Latin worlds, Lyon was constructed over the centuries in spite of its difficult urban geography. Founded by one of Caesar's lieutenants, the city became in turns the seat of the first national parliament, the capital of the Burgundian kingdom, a city of Provence, then a free city of the Holy Roman Empire.
"Lyon became French during the 14th century, only 700 years ago. Ever since, it has cultivated its distinctive 'differences'. These have turned up in commerce, in printing, in the cinema, in the silk and chemical and automobile industries, and now in the new technologies. Famous names such as the Lumière brothers, Marius Berliet, Joseph-Marie Jacquard, and Emile Guimet, are associated with this progress. At the dawn of the 21st century, Lyon has turned its eyes toward Europe, to regions Spanish, Italian, Swiss, and German -- without neglecting its ancient liaisons, located far from these, in Africa, the Near East and the Far East.
Jean Etèvenaux, specialist in the history of the Lyonnais, has entirely renewed this new edition of his Les Grandes Heures de Lyon. He holds a doctorate in history and a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and he is president of the Société des Ecrivains et du Livre Lyonnais et Rhônalpins. Since 1992 he has been editor-in-chief of Missi, and he teaches in various Lyon universities. He is the author of fifteen books.
* The entry of Henri II into Lyon : September 1548, by Maurice Scève, a facsimile with an introduction by Richard Cooper (Tempe, Arizona : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997) ISBN: 0866982000.
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* Vivre à Lyon sous l'Ancien Régime, by Françoise Bayard ([Paris] : Perrin, c1997) ISBN: 2262010781.
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* From Liberalism to Fascism : The Right in a French Province, 1928-1939, by Kevin Passmore (Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 1997) ISBN: 0521580188.
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* 100 ans d'urbanisme à Lyon, by Charles Delfante, Agnes Dally Martin (Lyon : Lugd, 1995) ISBN: 2841470040 [ref. http://www.fnac.fr].
* Jacobinism and the Revolt of Lyon, 1789-1793, by W.D. Edmonds (Oxford, England : Clarendon Press, 1990) ISBN: 0198227493.
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* An Uncertain Hour : The French, the Germans, the Jews, the Klaus Barbie Trial, and the City of Lyon, 1940-1945, by Ted Morgan (New York : Arbor House Pub Co, 1989) ISBN: 0877959897.
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* The Artisan Republic : Revolution, Reaction, and Resistance in Lyon, 1848-1851, by Mary Lynn Stewart-McDougall (Toronto : McGill Queens University Press, 1984) ISBN: 0773504265.
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* Reviving the Industrial City : The Politics of Urban Renewal in Lyon and Birmingham, by Jerry A. Webman (Piscataway, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 1982) ISBN: 0813509475.
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* Women and the making of the working class, Lyon, 1830-1870, by Laura S. Strumingher (St. Alban's, Vermont : Eden Press, c1979).
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* The Lyon Uprising of 1834 : Social and Political Conflict in the Early July Monarchy, by Robert J. Bezucha (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1974) ISBN: 0674539656.
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* Sisters of Liberty : Marseille, Lyon, Paris, and the Reaction to a Centralized State, 1868-1871, by Louis M. Greenberg (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1971) ISBN: 0674810007.
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* Doctrine et action politique d'Agobard : Saint Agobard, évêque de Lyon 760 - 840, by Adrien Bressoles (Paris : J. Vrin, 1949) ISBN 2711600912 [ref. http://www.fnac.fr -- "Livraison prévue le 20 septembre 1998 pour la France Métropolitaine". The BN says "134 p. 24 cm."]
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