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The Rue Édouard-Herriot is one of the most important shopping streets of the Presqu'île in Lyon. It links the two most famous places of the city, the Place Bellecour and the Place des Terreaux . Its northern part is located in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, but the main part of the street is in the 2nd arrondissement. In its southern part, the street passes through the Place des Jacobins. It belongs to the zone classified as World Heritage Site by UNESCO.HistoryIn the mid-nineteenth century, Claude-Marius Vaïsse, then prefect of the Rhône and also assuming the duties of mayor, decided to restructure the Presqu'île in the manner of Georges Eugène Haussmann in Paris. In the first plan drawn in 1853, a new street connected the current Place de la République to the Place des Terreaux. Finally, the new axis, which was named rue de l'Impératrice, was built in the 1860s in a straight line between Place Bellecour and Place des Terreaux. The avenue began from Place Le Viste, widened at the same time, and crossed the Place des Jacobins, which then took its final form. The street widened and formed two new small squares which were named in 1930 (Place Francisque Regaud in 1931 and Place Antoine-Isaac Rivoire in 1934). The new street included part of the existing streets : Rue de la Plume, which is now the eastern part of the Place Franciscque Regaud, Rue de l'Aumône, Rue de Vandran, Place de la Fromagerie before the apse of the Église Saint-Nizier at the place of the current Place Antoine-Isaac Rivoire, Rue de la Sirène, Rue de Clermont, opened on the lands belonging to the Abbey Saint-Pierre in 1582.