Previous Location: Auvergne
Google Map (in progress)
See the Pinchon illustrated map for Lyonnais.
Chapter LXI – The boys enter Lyonnais and learn about goat herding in villages outside of Lyon.
Chapter LXII – The boys enter Lyon in the département of Saône. They see the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourvière and admire the Rhone River, here joined by the Saône River.
Video: La basilique Notre-Dame-de-Fourvière – Région Rhone-Alpes – Le Monument Préféré des Français from Le Pays préféré des Français & Au fil du Rhône from Echappées belles.
Chapter LXIII – The boys discuss the city of Lyon, in particular, its geographical location and its silk industry.
Videos on the silk industry of Lyon: Lyon, ville des tissus et de la soie – Reportage from Visites privées; Lyon, au fil de la soie from France 24; and Lyon : la ville historique de la soie ! from Des Racines et Des Ailes.
Chapter LXIV – The boys sell the goods that they have purchased along the way to Lyon, to great profit.
Videos on Lyon in general: Lyon gourmand & Lyon, la gourmandise en héritage & Lyon from Échappées belles.
Chapter LXV – On their way out of Lyon, the boys learn about Joseph Marie Jacquard & Bernard de Jussieu.
Video: How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology from The Henry Ford.
Chapter LXVI – The boys make it at least to Saint-Étienne, their final stop with the merchant for whom they have been working, and their last stop in the Lyonnais.
Video: Saint-Étienne, capitale historique du ruban from Météo à la carte.
Nihil sub sole novum 