General information of Amiens

History

the Généralité of Amiens was created in 1542, its spring relating to the Picardy then. During the creation of the general information of Soissons in 1595, it lost the elections of Laon, Soissons, Guise and Boundary-line. Thereafter one attached to him the governments of Ardres, Boulogne, Calais and Montreuil.

At the XVIIIe century, the general information of Amiens was mixed, including/understanding six elections, but also four governments, is Bolted it and the “reconquered country” (Calais and Ardres).

In 1789, the general information of Amiens east within the competence of the Minister for the House of the king.

It was composed of 14 subdelegations.

The general information according to the general Payment of January 24th, 1789 (General states)

Names of the bailliages principal, followed number of deputies to elect and name of the secondary bailliages:

Bailliage of Amiens, 8 deputies, (Ham);
Seneschalsy of Boulonnois in Boulogne, 4 deputies;
Bailliage of Calais, 4 deputies, (Ardres);
Bailliage de Montreuil-sur-Mer, 4 deputies;
Government of Fibula, 8 deputies, (Montdidier, Roye);
Seneschalsy of Ponthieu in Abbeville, 4 deputies;
Bailliage of Saint-Quentin, 4 deputies.

List administrative units

The general information being one of the major administrative units, the historical knowledge of the territory concerned passes by the inventory of the lower districts of any nature. This inventory is the base of an exploration of the files distributed between different the Departmental records from the departments included/understood in the general information.

The bailliages are not taken again above, their exact names remaining in particular to be confirmed.

Election of Abbeville

The election of Abbeville had been consisted dismemberment of that of Amiens. It did not have any cohesion territotiale. " It, was written Jacques Dupâquier, a collection of enclaves and overlaps evoking a feudal parcelling out rather than a modern administrative unit. Twenty parishes were partly on the election of Amiens, twenty on that of Doullens; what still complicates the things, it is that the division varied, and that the horse collections on the limits always did not form parish ecclésiastique" ( Statistical demographic of the Paris basin , 1639-1720, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1977, p. 67)

Subdelegation of Abbeville
Subdelegation of Albert
Election of Amiens

During the creation of the election of Have (August 1696), the election of Amiens was cut down by 10 parishes (and of 3 parishes semi-parts with that of Abbeville).

Subdelegation of Amiens
Government of Ardres
Subdelegation of Ardres
Government of Boulogne
Subdelegation of Boulogne
Subdelegation of Breteuil
Government of Calais
Subdelegation of Calais
Subdelegation of Corbie (1731-1762)
Election of Doullens
Subdelegation of Doullens
Subdelegation of Grandvilliers (1753-1782)
Election of Montdidier
Subdelegation of Montdidier
Government of Montreuil-sur-Mer
Subdelegation of Montreuil-sur-Mer
Election of Fibula
Subdelegation of Fibula
Subdelegation of Roye
Subdelegation of Street (1741-1759)
Election of Saint-Quentin
Subdelegation of Saint-Quentin
Subdelegation of Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

Source
Jacques Dupâquier, Statistical demographic of the Paris basin, 1636-1720 , Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1977. One will find in this work the distribution of the parishes of the general information between the various elections, and the evolution of the population of each parish (many fires at the XVIIe century and the beginning of XVIIIe).

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