It has been 2 years now since moving from Melbourne where I spent 22 years there, now I have a family with my husband and Ric (son).
I am a Vietnamese, during war time our family move to Australia and everything started there
From what I heard, It was under King Louis XII (1462-1515) et King Francois I (1494-1547) that the Lyon fairs were most successful, at that happy era of the Renaissance when Lyon was almost the capital of France.
In 1420, Charles VII (1403-61), sensible to the fidelity of the Lyon population, granted them two annual fairs ; he even added a third in 1444. Unique in France, these fairs which would each last for twenty days, developed very quickly. Eager for safety, tax free, merchants from all countries, and especially Germany and Switzerland, came running in.
Louis XI (1423-83) did more : in 1463, he established four fairs of fifteen days each. there was thus the Twelfth Night fair, the Easter fair, the August fair and All Saint's Day fair.
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