With the collaboration of Sabine and Thierry Pérouse

or centuries, the 8th December in Lyon is the "Festival of Lights", when all the inhabitants of the town put little night-lights in their windows, and thousands of lights along the banks of the rivers Saone and Rhone make the whole city shimmer.

very year at this time, the City Council organises a big exhibition in the foyer of the city hall. The public greatly looks forward to this event, and many people queue outside and rush in as soon as the doors are opened.

his is exactly what happened with the Pieta exhibition. Unusually, a whole team of city policemen where there on the opening night, to organise and channel the "traffic" just as if they were in the town streets.