Pinsteps. Quatre-Septembre
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The Qatre Septembre metro station is called so by the name of the street. On September 4, 1870, the third Republic was proclaimed in France. It existed before the capture of Paris by the Nazis in July 1940. Right opposite the metro station stands a huge bank building called today la Centorial. This is the brightest example of the architecture of Haussmann era. In 1887 a magnificent opening of the building took place. It impressed with its scope and beauty as a client and investors. Metal structures were made by Eiffel, an engineer of the Eiffel Tower. The owner of the bank Henri Germain was born in Lyon in the early 19th century. He was the son of a silk businessman. In 1863, he founded the first bank in France to offer savings accounts with interest. The bank was named Crédit Lyonnais and was the biggest bank in the world by 1900. It was nationalized in 1945, as was the most of the banking sector in France after the war. But the fate of the building as its master was not as cloudless as it might seem. During the First World War, the building of the bank suffered from a German bomb. Scandals accompanied the history of the bank. In 1976, on the steps of the bank, his chairman was shot. In 1980, the bank became the largest owner of Hollywood studios but very quickly lost its rights due to corruption and extreme luxury. In 1996, the building was a fire. It burned 12 hours and it was the biggest fire in Paris in the last 25 years. In 2005 it was renamed LCL in order to avoid negative references to its troubled recent history. It is owned by, but with, the existing French retail network of Crédit Agricole.


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