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Lyon
 
 
(lee-OHNN) Also Lyons; a city in east-central France on the Rhone River.  1
‡ Lyon is the principal producer of silk and rayon in Europe.  2
‡ It was the capital of the Free French Resistance movement in World War II.  3
 
 
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