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Lyon sous la Révolution
Lyon, sous la Révolution, connait l'ensemble des évolutions qui parcourent la destinée du pays, exaltation des débuts, transformations politiques, déchirement sous la Terreur avec un siège décidé par les Montagnards et une fin de période ponctuée de vengeances et de tentatives de relèvements.
Lyon entre dans la Révolution comme une cité aux structures urbaines et politiques très datée. La ville est à l'étroit dans ses antiques murailles et le consulat dirige autoritairement aux destinées de la cité. Lyon est également riche d'une industrie soyeuse renommée, qui a créée une typologie sociale particulière, la Fabrique.
Lyon entre dans la Révolution avec de lourds problèmes financiers, à l'égal de l'État, l'administration municipale étant bloquée par un système d'entrée d'argent, les octrois, qui renchérissent le coût de la vie pour les masses populaires. Ces octrois sont le points de tensions du peuple lyonnais, la cause des débordements révolutionnaires et de la radicalisation progressive d'une partie de la population. Celle-ci accueille avec espoir durant les premières années les nombreuses transformations politiques et institutionnelles, déco
Siege of Lyon
The siege of Lyon occurred on 9 August to 9 October when French Republican forces laid siege and captured the city of Lyon, which was the centre of a revolt against the French government during the War of the First Coalition.
Historical background
[edit]The Army of the Alps, under the command of Kellermann, was engaged in a campaign in Savoy against the Piedmontese when it received the assignment to head west in order to re-establish huvud government authority in Lyon, and was able to turn its attention to its new mission only a month later, on 10 August Two days after that, on 12 August , the rebellious department was split into two, creating on the western side of the river the department of Loire with its capital at Feurs and, on the eastern side, the department of Rhône. Just over a week later, on 21 August, the Paris government sent to Lyon a high level team that included Georges Couthon, a leading member of the Committee of Public Safety and a close colleague of Robespierre himself. The next day the revolutionary army began its bombardment. During September Lyon was encircled, and on 29 September , on the south-western side of the city, the for
Lyon Commune
– revolutionary movement in Lyon, France
For other uses, see Commune (disambiguation).
| Commune de Lyon | |
|---|---|
Flag | |
Location of Lyon in France | |
| Capital | Lyon |
| Government | Committee of Public Safety (Lyon) |
| &#;•&#;Type | Local revolutionary provisional government |
| History | &#; |
•&#;Established | 4 September |
•&#;Salvation Committee established | 17 September |
•&#;Second uprising begins | 22 March |
•&#;Disestablished | 1 May |
The Lyon Commune (French: Commune de Lyon) was a short-lived revolutionary movement in Lyon, France, in – Republicans and activists from several components of the far-left of the time seized power in Lyon and established an autonomous government. The commune organized elections, but dissolved after the restoration of a republican "normality", which frustrated the most radical elements, who hoped for a different revolution. Radicals twice tried to regain power, without success.
The Lyon events happened in the context of a revolutionary wave of series of similar uprisings in most major French cities in the aftermath of the collapse of the Second French Empire, culminating in the Paris Com