Tour with an Actor-Guide: The Revolution and the End of Lyon
Immerse yourself in the history Revolution as Lyon lived it, in the person of one of the players in this stormy chapter of the French nation. As André Marie Ampère, renowned mathematician who lost his own father to the guillotine’s grisly work, your actor guide’s character has a crucial understanding of the danger the city is in. For as the glory days of the French Revolution descended into the hell of the Reign of Terror, Lyon dared to rise up against it. Paris, which governed the country through that terror, in turn condemned Lyon.