Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Consulte de Lyon was an extraordinary meeting held in Lyon during the French Consulate that converted the Cisalpine Republic into the Italian Republic. Napoleon Bonaparte became president of the new republic as a result of the meeting.
The Consulte de Lyon ran from the 11th to the 26th of January 1802.
The Consulte de Lyon was held in the chapel of the Jesuit College of the Trinity in Lyon, a building now known as the lycée Ampère.
Four hundred and fifty two deputies were named to attend the Consulte de Lyon, representing the Cisalpine Republic's Italian territories.
Napoleon Bonaparte presided over the Consulte de Lyon after Antonio Aldini and Francesco Melzi d'Eril were both offered the presidency and both refused it. Talleyrand pushed Bonaparte to take the lead, and he addressed the delegates in Italian.
Filippo Maria Visconti, the 82 year old archbishop of Milan, died of a heart attack at a dinner on the 31st of December 1801, before the Consulte de Lyon opened. He was talking with Talleyrand when he collapsed, and Pietro Moscati tried in vain to save him.