[FRANCAIS]
La Manufacture des Tabacs est une ancienne usine de tabacs, située dans le 8e arrondissement de Lyon, aujourd'hui réhabilitée en campus, propriété de l'université Lyon III. Elle est présente dans la liste des monuments du « Patrimoine du XXe siècle ».
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[ENGLISH]
To face the soaring cosumption of tobacco at the start of the 20th century, the French government decided to build a new plant in Lyon on a 25,000m² site of a fortification bought from the army. Started in 1912, the construction was interrupted by the First World War. Construction resumed in 1920 and was definitively finished in 1932. At this time 2,000 employees produced up to 30 million cigarettes on a daily basis. In 1987, the production was stopped and in July 1990 the Urban Community of Lyon bought the site for thirty-five million French franc on behalf of the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3.
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