The Rue Burdeau (French pronunciation: [ʁy byʁdo] ⓘ) is a street located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, at the bottom of the slopes of La Croix-Rousse, just above the Église Saint-Polycarpe, between the Saône and the Rhône.

[1] The street was drawn in the late eighteenth century, pierced in 1810, extended in 1926 and first named Rue du Commerce on 18 June 1829 because it was regularly crossed by silk workers.

[3] In 1858, the street was extended to the Jardin des Plantes, created at the same time, and the south of the ruins of the amphitheater were destroyed.

The Cour du Soleil, named after the Grolier, the 'Lords of the Sun', who owned the place from 1630 to 1688,[4] was then incorporated into the street on 17 February 1855 and extended in 1860.

[5] Its current name was assigned by the municipal council of 8 January 1895[6] in honor of politician and professor of philosophy Auguste Burdeau who was born in the street in 1851.

[1] A statue of Burdeau, created by architect Gaston Trelat, is erected at the bottom of the Jardin des Plantes, just next to the street and below the Roman amphitheater.