Passage Des Imprimeurs

In the Middle Ages, the streets were named after the artisans who were grouped by profession. Therefore you had Butchers Street, Blacksmiths Street etc ... This is the "Printers Street". "Merciere Street" is nearby and it means "commercial street". It is a large axis of traffic from Lyon and for centuries linked the bridge Change (for a long time the only bridge over the river Saone Lyon, but it was destroyed), to the Guillotiere bridge, leading to the Dauphiné region. It was, from the fifteenth century, the centre of the printers who came from Germany and Italy as most of them settled in this passage which linked Merciere Street to the banks of Saint Antoine.