The Montée du Gourguillon begins at the Place de la Trinité and ascends to the Rue des Farges.

[5] Less credible sources suggest that the name may also come from "gurges sanguinis", referring to the blood of the martyrs killed in the year 177, flowing down the hill.

Indeed, according to legend, the fourth battalion of the National Guard of France (1789-1871, 2015-present), which was recruited in this neighborhood in 1790, bore a flag with the Latin motto Dat sanguine palmas.

[9] The Place Beauregard is located at the middle of the slope, where there is a slight widening of the square at the junction of stairs to the Montée des Épies.

[9] From Roman times to the late 16th century, the Montée du Gourguillon was the sole road providing access to the Saint-Just quarter,[8] and it was often used by processions of powerful men.

[11] Originally, it was a natural road descending the hill of Fourvière to what is now known as Vieux Lyon, on the banks of the Saône river, thus connecting the two ancient centers of the city.

It was not lined with houses except at its lower end, and at its top the door of the city wall opened into the Saint-Just quarter, which was an independent village at that time..

The legend says that in his fall, the pope lost his crown and a precious stone worth 6,000 florins was knocked out and was eventually buried under the rubble.

The church was rebuilt on another site, and the ruins, scavenged for building materials, disappeared Between 1525 and 1555, doctor of laws, humanist and archaeologist Guillaume De Choul received many scientists and scholars in his house in this street.

[16] Jeanne Chezard de Martel established the Order of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament in Lyon, with the approval of Pope Urban VII, in 1633.

[9] Those sisters who survived the French Revolution, the decree abolishing convents and monasteries and the persecution that followed eventually found a home in the United States and Mexico.

Much-admired by Charles Joseph Chambet in his 1853 Nouveau guide pittoresque de l'etranger a Lyon, it had a dining room whose walls were hung with students' oil paintings, a covered gymnasium built under the direction of Colonel Francisco Amorós y Ondeano, who introduced "gymnastics", physical education, to France.

The reign of Louis XI (1461–83) saw the establishment of four annual fairs, and François I (1515-1547) granted Lyon silk weaving privileges, breaking an Italian monopoly.

A hermathena adorned the center, and a deity taking the role of a gymnasiarch carries a palm destined for the winner in one hand and gestures toward the central figure honoring Hermes and Athena with the other.