Musée Lumière

This guide to the Musée Lumière in Lyon opens in the spring of 1895, in a garden on this very estate, where Auguste and Marguerite Lumière tried to spoon breakfast into their squirming baby daughter Andrée while her uncle Louis pointed his new invention, the cinematograph, at the scene. You'll hear how the short film, screened first in Lyon and then in Paris that December, traveled from an ordinary family meal into cinema history. The chateau standing here today rose around the family only a few years later.