We spent most of today in two museums, beginning at the Center for the History of the Resistance and Deportation.
The museum was originally established about 20 years after the end of WWII to capture the memories of Resistance fighters and keep them alive; later, after the trial of Klaus Barbie in the late 1980s, they broadened their remit to include the deportation, torture, and murder of Jews and others by the Nazis.
We spent several hours there and didn’t see everything – it was overwhelming. The signage was almost exclusively in French, but they had an excellent English audioguide which was very well-done, though I started using Google Translate on the signs so I could see more of the exhibits instead of listening to the audio.
After spending a while decompressing, we finally had enough energy to make the trip up to Fourviere Hill. We skipped the basilica of Notre-Dame; instead, we spent the afternoon in Lugdunum, the museum of Roman settlement in Lyon.
