Traboule with Monique

Traboule of Lyon France

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We are absolutely overwhelmed with experiences. I only say that, to say that all our subsequent posts will not be consecutive. Lyon has a long history of human occupation. Let's start with the Romans in 43 A.D. And of course that means drama. The traboules, secret passages ways in between the houses that connect one street to another were built, some say, between the twelth century and the sixteenth. The passageways were built as an escape route from one form of persecution or another. Even up to the second world war the French Resistance used the traboules to outwit the Gestapo. Monique's second cousin who fought in the Resistance, losing both his legs, is a national hero. Monique's Father is another kind of hero to me. He carried this man whom his mom raised as his brother, up the stairs on his back, for years.