text:  French First Republic, 1792–1793 
   Counter-revolutionary, 1793 
   French First Republic, 1793–1804 
   First French Empire, 1804–1814 
   Kingdom of France, 1814–1815 
   First French Empire, 1815 
   Kingdom of France, 1815–1830 
   Kingdom of France, 1830–1848 
   French Second Republic, 1848–1852 
   Second French Empire, 1852–1870 
   French Third Republic, 1870–1940 
   Vichy France, 1940–1944 
   French Fourth Republic, 1944–1958 
   France, 1958–present 
  
  In 1572, Lyon was a scene of mass violence by Catholics against 
  Protestant Huguenots in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. Two 
  centuries later, Lyon was again convulsed by violence during the French 
  Revolution, when the citizenry rose up against the National Convention 
  and supported the Girondins. The city was besieged by Revolutionary armies for over 
  two months before it surrendered in October 1793. Many buildings were destroyed, 
  especially around the Place Bellecour, and Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois and Joseph 
  Fouché administered the execution of more than 2,000 people. The Convention 
  ordered that its name be changed to "Liberated City", and a plaque was erected that 
  proclaimed "Lyons made war on Liberty; Lyons no longer exists". A decade later, 
  Napoleon ordered the reconstruction of all the buildings demolished during that 
  period. 
  Lyon under siege in 1793 