Place Croix-Paquet

The Place Croix-Paquet (French pronunciation: [plas kʁwa pakɛ] ⓘ) is a square located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, in the pentes de la Croix-Rousse quarter.

A cross was erected on the square in 1628[1] by the merchant Jean Paquet (also spelled Pâquet), who also owned the house at the corner of the Montée Saint-Sébastien and of the Rue René-Laynaud.

In the early years of the eighteenth century, the penitents of Notre Dame de Lorette erected a chapel which was sold to the sculptor Chinard, then was replaced by a building.

3 was an industry installed in 1753 by English John Badger at the request of the Duke of Mirepoix, Ambassador of France in London,[2] and is now a straight traboule with a posh building.

[4] There are many shops on the square, including grocery stores, a hairdresser, a doctor, a psychologist, a real estate agency, a pharmacy, a restaurant, a laundromat.

[4] The site is served by the Croix-Paquet metro station on line , originally part of the Croix-Rousse-Croix-Paquet funicular railway which was inaugurated on Sunday 12 April 1891.