The Rue du Bât-d'Argent is an old street which crosses perpendicularly a part of the Presqu'île quarter in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon.

[9] At number 8, at the corner of the Rue de la Republique, the restaurant of chocolate maker Casati was wrecked in 1894, when Sadi Carnot was murdered.

[13] Many famous people have lived in this street, including sculptor Antoine Coysevox in the 17th century (he sculpted a Virgin statue in 1676-77[14] which remained a few time at the corner of the Rue du Bât-d'Argent and the Rue de l'Hôtel de Ville), André-Marie Ampère and his wife in 1800,[15] Stendhal in 1837, painters Jean-Pierre Crolle and François Nolin (18th century), and Alphonse Daudet.

The street currently begins with a very wide section composed of four-floor buildings of around the 1950s; there is still an 18th-century house at the intersection of the Rue de la Bourse.

2, at the corner with the Rue Édouard-Hérriot, the Madonna and Child[17] sculpted by Coysevox around 1676 is considered as a baroque masterpiece and has been preserved since 1771 at the Église Saint-Nizier.