The Silver Arcade of Lyon

This guide to the Silver Arcade in Lyon follows a glass-roofed passage built for goldsmiths and jewelers that took on an unexpected second life as a stage for the beloved rogue puppet Guignol, created decades earlier by a silk worker to mock doctors, lawyers, and landlords. It also traces the arcade's role in the canut weavers' uprising, when soldiers blew open its iron gate with cannon fire. Look up at the roughly eighty meters of glass roof overhead, largely unchanged since the eighteen twenties.