Jardin Villemanzy
Terraced hillside garden on a former convent and military hospital site, with sweeping city views.
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This guide to Jardin Villemanzy in Lyon follows the career of Jacques Pierre Orillard de Villemanzy, Napoleon's intendant general, who grew rich and careful counting supplies for armies rather than fighting in them, and who chose Austrian captivity over the guillotine during the Revolution. It traces the ground itself from a 1665 convent through seizure and auction to a family who never got paid before the army took it over instead. Look for the stone archway on the long white building to the north, the convent's original wing.
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