Lyon - Place de la Croix-Rousse et Statue de Jacquard

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Lyon - The area of Croix-Rousse and the monument Zhakkaru.Bronzovy monument Joseph-Marie Jacquard, the inventor of the semi-automatic loom, later named "jacquard machine", was installed in the city of Lyon weavers on Sutton (place Sathonay) area in 1840. In 1899 he decided to move monument in the weaving area Croix-Rousse, where the monument re-opened in 1901. During the second world war monument removed and melted down. In 1947 on the same site open stone monument.