Beyond the Place Bellecour, the Rue de la République is its natural extension, thus creating one of the biggest pedestrian streets in Europe.

[4] Planned in 1775 by Perrache[5] and drawn during the First Empire, it would allow the emperor to see the equestrian statue of Louis XIV located on the Place Bellecour from his palace whose construction was scheduled at the Confluence.

25 and 27, an institution founded by Chalotte Dupin and called the Œuvre des Charlottes was installed, which became the Sisters of St.

On 8 December 1976, after a two-year work and despite the traders' opposition and the mayor's lack of enthusiasm, it was transformed into a pedestrian street and took its current shape, which made it the second pedestrian street of Lyon and France (the first one was the Rue de la République, a few months earlier).

[2] On 27 March 1984, gendarmer general Guy Delfosse was killed in a bank attack by the terrorist group Action directe.