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Trompe-l'oeil - Lyonnais' fresco

Trompe-l'oeil - Lyonnais' fresco

Here are the people : Saint Irénée (bishop of Lyon in the 2nd century and father of the Church), Saint Blandine (martyred in Lyon in the second century), Louise Labé (she was a poet of the Renaissance), Maurice Scève (poet of the Renaissance), Juliette Récamier (famous for her salons under the Directory), Claude Bourgelat (founder of the veterinary schools. While doctors take the oath of Hippocrates, veterinarians take the oath of Bourgelat), Pauline-Marie Jaricot (Founder of the charity of the Propagation of the Faith), Claudine Thévenet (founder of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary for the education of abandoned children), Claude Martin (creator of school La Martiniere, open to everybody), Jean-Baptiste Say (journalist and economist to whom we owe Say's Law : "supply constitutes demand"), André-Marie Ampère (scientist to whom we owe a lot of work on electromagnetism and electrodynamics and the famous theorem of Ampere that connects electric intensity and magnetic field), Laurent Mourguet (the creator of the puppet Guignol), Antoinde de Saint-Exupéry (writer, poet and aviator to whom we owe the little prince), Antoine de Jussieu (botanist), Marcel Mérieux (founder of Merieux institute that has become Sanofi-Pasteur), Claude Bernard (founder of experimental medicine), Edouard Herriot (Mayor of Lyon and head of government under Gaston Doumergue), Tony Garnier (architect to whom we owe the Gerland stadium and the Halle Tony Garnier), Auguste and Louis Lumière (inventors of the cinema), Bernard Pivot (journalist and literary critic), Abbot Pierre (priest and founder of Emmaus which helps poor people and homeless), Bernard Lacombe (soccer player and then leader of the O.L. : Lyon's football team), Paul Bocuse (grand chef), Frédéric Dard (writer who used words which were not in the dictionary).