General information of Burgundy

The Généralité of Burgundy was created in 1542. Principal city, Dijon was seat of one of the seventeen general receipts created by Henri II and entrusted to general treasurers (Edict given to Blois in January 1551).

It was composed of nineteen bailliages and two elections; thirty-four subdelegations (intendance).

The general information according to the royal Payment of February 7th, 1789 (General states)

Names of the bailliages principal, followed number of deputies to elect and name of the secondary bailliages:
  • Bailliage of Autun, 4 deputies, (Bourbon-Lancy, Montcenis, Semur-in-Brionnais);
  • Bailliage of Auxerre, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of the Bar-on-Seine, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Borough-in-Bresse, 8 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Bugey and Valromey in Belley, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Chalon-sur-Saône, 8 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Charolles, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Dijon, 8 deputies, (Auxonne, Beaune, Nights, Saint-Jean-of-Losne);
  • Bailliage of Gex, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of the Mountain with the Châtillon-on-Seine, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Mâcon, 4 deputies;
  • Bailliage of Semur-in-Auxois, 4 deputies, (Avallon, Arnay-the-Duke, Saulieu);
  • Bailliage of Trévoux, 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.

This list does not comprise all above the bailliages, their exact names remaining to be confirmed.

(Intendance with Trévoux of 1762 to 1787, in Dombes.)

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