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Beautiful Lyon, France’s third largest city, is often thought of as a runner-up to Paris. But for many of those who live there, Lyon stands in a class of its own and has all the usual offerings of a large, sophisticated city. Lyon is not a city of grim skyscrapers, perpetually clogged with traffic and impatient city-dwellers. Rather, it’s a tranquil city filled with elegant buildings painted in the warm yellow-orange-ochre hues of the Mediterranean. Not one but two rivers—the Saône and Rhône—cut