Ambitions Tamed

When Lyon''s population experienced significant growth in the eighteenth century, architect Jean-Antoine Morand made a radical proposal: France''s second city would expand across the river Rhône, making him rich in the process. Intense work and bitter rivalries resulted, although they bore fruit only long after Morand had died on the guillotine in 1794. In Ambitions Tamed, Pierre Reynard profiles ...