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There are three instances of Lyon in three chapters.
Normalized frequency of Lyon in the Essays
taxable commoner, unfit to bear arms. This harsh sentence was executed in Lyon.❦ Later, every gentleman found in Guise when the Count of Nassau took …
of Brittany could suffocate in a crowd, as did this one, in Lyon, upon the arrival of Pope Clement, my neighbor?∗ Did you not see …
when the Tartar king, who was become Christian, designed to come to Lyon to kiss the Pope’s feet, and there to be an eye-witness of …