General information of Turns

The Généralité of Turns was created in 1542. Tours 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 sixteen elections; vingt-une subdelegations (intendance).

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:

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 the bailliages above, their exact names remaining to be confirmed.

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