Brotteaux

I am called Brotteaux, and I was a publican in former days. "

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

The best to take to see the principal parts of the town is the large roomy car running between the Perrache railway station and the Brotteaux railway station, passing through the P.  Perrache, P.

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By the western side of the Brotteaux railway station are the large barracks of the Part-Dieu and the Fort des Brotteaux.

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Brotteaux stations are auxiliaries of the Perrache station.

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In 1794 the revolutionary tribunal, sitting in the Hôtel de Ville, guillotined so many people in this square that it became so flooded with blood as to render it necessary to send the executioners to Brotteaux, near the present railway station, to finish this wholesale slaughter of Frenchmen by Frenchmen.

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Within less than half an hour's walk of the Brotteaux, and on the same side of the river, stands the Château la Motte, in which Henry IV. received Mary de Medicis as his bride.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

Brotteaux at present; but no true lover of his country ought to neglect visiting a spot associated with such warning recollections.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

Morand to the terminus at the Brotteaux railway station.

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His fate was like that of so many other loyal and intrepid Lyonnese: being forced at last to surrender, he underwent, as may be supposed, a very summary trial, and was shot on the Brotteaux, in sight of the distant turrets of his own house.

Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

Drive in tram car, outside if possible, between the Place Perrache and the Brotteaux railway station, page 31.

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