Sources of inspiration > The factory in real life • Code Lyoko

The factory where our heroes regularly go to virtualise onto Lyoko seems to be largely inspired by the old Renault factory on Île Seguin (on the Seine), a factory that was unfortunately destroyed at the end of 2004. Check it out for yourselves...

[Quick history] [Geographical location] [And it's even more striking in the pictures...] [What became of Île Seguin?]

Quick history

1926: Factory opened
1992: Factory closed
2004: Factory demolished
2007-2017: Urban planning and reconversion projects to turn the island into a cultural centre: "La Seine Musicale."
For more information, see news articles in the last section at the bottom of this page!

Finally, for those who are curious, you can watch this historical documentary on the factory between 1960 and 1992 (in French), which recounts the life of the last generation of workers at the factory.

Geographical location

Location of the factory in Code Lyoko:

Map of Boulogne-Billancourt, the city where the factory was located.

Curious resemblance, right?

And it's even more striking in the pictures...

No doubt about it, our factory is indeed the old Renault factory...

I am going to let you see the pictures taken by Pierre Giron (www.pierphoto.com), who let us use them here. Big thanks to him!

Citadel or carcass...

Fascinating and alluring...

Where do we enter?

From the riverbank...

Via the rooftop...

By climbing...

...or through the front door!

A cathedral of glass...

...where time stands still.

Metal depths...

Machines stopped...

The workers are long gone...

...leaving a part of themselves behind...

But where is XANA???

Photo and caption credits: Pierre Giron - www.pierphoto.com

What became of Île Seguin?

Here you can read different French newspaper articles on our "CL in the press" page, from the fate of Île Seguin to all you could possibly want to know about the heroes' factory on the island... And maybe discover if the Supercomputer is still underground!!

[12 October 2007] - Article from 20 Minutes
[11 July 2008] - Article from 20 Minutes
[17 December 2012] - Article from FranceTV.fr
[21 April 2017] - Article from Le Monde

The factory...in the cartoon

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