Villeurbanne. The city is the only one in France to have a municipal organ resonate

This February 28, as has been the tradition for almost 90 years, the organ played again at the opening of the Villeurbanne municipal council. On keyboards, organist Frédéric Lamantia had chosen to play two love songs, directing the audience’s ears towards Eastern Europe.

But what is this tradition? And why this tool? When he was elected mayor of Villeurbanne in 1924, the doctor Lazare Goujon, son of the people and supporter of the Workers’ International…

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