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 Alain Martineau
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| General Description : | Souvenirs & Patrimoine is an entreprise from Groupe DEFIS specializing in the design, minting and distribution of souvenir and collectable medals. |
| Front Description : | The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is a minor basilica in Lyon. It was built with private funds between 1872 and 1884 in a dominating position in the city. The site it occupies was once the Roman forum of Trajan, the forum vetus (old forum), thus its name (as an inverted corruption of the French Vieux-Forum). Speculating on the reasons for the construction of such an elaborate and expensive building, one author makes the possibly questionable statement that: "The reaction to the communes of Paris and Lyon were triumphalist monuments, the Sacré-Coeur of Montmartre and the basilica of Fourvière, dominating both cities. These buildings were erected using private funds, as gigantic ex-votos, thanking God for the victory over the socialists and in expiation of the sins of modern France." Notre-Dame de Fourvière was included when the whole historic center of Lyon was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1998. |
| Back Description : | Lyon's coat of arms over its location on the map of France. |
| Width | 31.00 mm |
| Material | -I do not know- |
| Catalog prices | No catalog prices set yet |
