General information of Caen

The Généralité of Caen was created in 1542. Caen was the seat of one of the seventeen general receipts created by Henri II and entrusted to treasurers general treasurers by the Edict given to Blois in January 1551). It was cut down by the Cliff election (236 parishes) during creation of the general information of Alençon in 1636. It was composed of nine elections; one counted there eleven subdelegations at the end of the Old Mode.

List administrative units

The general information having become, the day before the Revolution, one of the major administrative units of the kingdom, 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 the bailliages (see below), their exact names remaining to be confirmed.

Election of Avranches

Subdelegation of 'Avranches

Election of Bayeux

The election of Bayeux was cut down in April 1639 by 55 parishes (sergenteries of Toigny and of Saint-Clearly-on it) which passed to the new election of Saint-Lo. In February 1642, it accepted 32 additional parishes. With the suppression of the election of Saint-Lo, one returned to the situation of before 1639.La reconstitution of the election of Saint-Lo in March 1691 made him lose 41 parishes.

Subdelegation of Bayeux

Election of Caen

The election of Caen lost 18 parishes with the profit of that of Bayeux created in February 1642, but recovered them later, probably during the suppression of the election of Saint-Lo.

Subdelegation of Caen

Election of Carentan

The election of Carentan lost 21 parishes during the creation of that of Saint-Lo in April 1639, but it accepted in compensation 16 parishes of 'election of Valognes. In August 1661 the election of Saint-Lo was removed, and one returned, more or less, with the former situation. During the reconstitution of the election of Saint-Lo in March 1691, the election of Carentan lost 29 parishes, and obtained any in exchange only 12 of the election of Valognes.

Subdelegation of Carentan

Election of Coutances

The election of Coutances lost 25 parishes in 1639, during the creation of the election of Saint-Lo. It recovered them in 1661, but again lost 26 of them in March 1691, during the reconstitution of the election of Saint-Lo.

Subdelegation of Coutances
Subdelegation of Granville, since 1783

Election of Mortain

Subdelegation of Mortain

Election of Saint-Lo

The election of Saint-Lo was created by an edict of April 1639. It then included/understood 101 parishes including 55 detached from the election of Bayeux (sergenteries of Torigny and Saint-Clearly), 21 of the election of Carentan (sergenteries of Saint-Lo and the Hommel-and-the-County) and 25 of the election of Coutances (sergenteries of Moyon and saint-Gilles). Removed in August 1661, the election of Saint-Lo was restored by the edict of March 1691 (starting from 41 detached parishes of the election from Bayeux, 29 of that of Carentan, and 26 of the election of Coutances).

Subdelegation of Saint-Lo

Election of Valognes

The election of Valognes lost 16 parishes in 1639 with the profit of the election of Carentan. It recovered 14 of them thereafter, probably with the favor of the suppression of the election of Saint-Lo in 1661. During the reconstitution of this election in March 1691, the election of Valognes lost 12 parishes again. Its spring was brought back to 175 parishes.

Subdélégation of Valognes
Subdélégation of Cherbourg

Élection of Transfers

Amputated by them parishes to the profit of the election of Bayeux in February 1642, the election of Transfers recovered that of Coulvain later on.

Subdélégation of Transfers

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

Principal names of both bailliages, followed number of deputies to elect and name of the secondary bailliages (on the distinction between bailliages principal and secondary to see the article principal Bailliages and bailliages secondary):

Bailliage of Caen, 12 deputies, (Bayeux, Cliff, Thorigny, Transfers);
Bailliage de Coutances, 16 deputies, (Avranches, Carentan, Cérences, Mortain, Saint-Lo, Saint-Saver-the-Viscount, Saint-Saver-Lendelin, Tinchebray, Valognes).

Sources

Jacques Dupâquier, Statistical demographic of the Paris basin, 1636-1720 , Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1977 (one will find in particular in this work the list of the parishes constituting each election, with the evolution of the number of their fires or household for tax purposes of 1636 to 1720).

Le funds of files of the general information of Caen is preserved at the Departmental records of the Apple-brandy, in the series C, articles 1 to 6962 (general administration, businesses military, justice, agriculture, trade, industry, public works, marinades, domanial businesses, impositions XVI|E|-|XVIII|E|S}}.

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