Lyon. The serin barracks and fort st-jean, pencil drawing on colored paper by balthazar jean baron, lyon municipal library, inventory number ms7000. Text after the image: dated from the years 1830(1)-1850, this engraving is contemporary with the discoveries reported by a. Comarmond(2). The trees were felled, the enclosure and its porch were destroyed, clearing the space of the place de la butte and revealing the steps of the state building adjoining the attic of abundance. Colette e. Bidon, an artist found. Balthazard-jean baron. 1788-1869, municipal library of lyon, collection bibliographica, lyon, 1999, p. 65, fig. 37. (1) the engraving cannot be prior to the creation of the path called "montée de la butte", around 1840 (see the article for more details). (2) the discoveries by a. Comarmond are vestiges of an ancient pottery workshop. Date: 1850.
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