À propos du principe d’utilité au xvii^e siècle L’Académie de Lyon et la ville

For seventeenth-century Academies, the search for well-being and security justified extensive town planning in the name of social “utility”. In Lyon, the creation of the Perrache quarter, and questions concerning land and river circulation, the ports, hygiene, the flow of clean water, and removal of dirty water, all attracted attention. The newest concerns however centred on heating, and the location of cemeteries. From the 1770s, the reflections of the Academy paved the way for the municipal decisions of 1806 which designated sites for cemeteries in Lyon.