Meximieux is noted since Antiquity. It draws its name from the owner of a Gallo-Roman farm : “Maximiacus”.

The Middle Ages

At the end of the Middle Ages the city was on a zone of Marche between Dauphiné, France and Savoy. It belonged to the Savoy during several centuries. For this period thrives, it acquired a position of frontier city with Pérouges. Its fidelity to him been worth the granting of a charter of frankness. It is for this period that was born Vaugelas. Its life between Savoy and France is with the image of its birthplace. However, the fights between sovereigns of France and Savoy, conduirent with an agreement which changed the destiny of the city.

Modern times

Treaty of Lyon (1601)

The annexation in France of the Bresse and the Bugey. The agreement proposed to exchange territories. France yielded Castle-Dolphin in Piedmont to the Savoy. Savoy yielded its Western provinces of Bresse and the Bugey, difficult to hold in the event of conflict. Each one thus securing a more coherent territory.

the French revolution and its impact

Meximieux became chief town of the canton éponyme. The arrival of the railroad (1858) facilitated the connections with the other points of the area.

the XIXe century

In the Seventies, the city knew a population growth with the establishment of the nuclear plant of the Bugey, with Saint-Vulbas. The executives and technicians of EDF were placed in two cities built above the district of the Fouilloux , with the Galamières . In the Eighties, the population continued to progress. The construction of the autouroute 42 facilitated the access to Lyon. Meximieux passed from the statute of rural small town to that of suburban commune. The population was multiplied by three in thirty years. The frequency of the trains also makes it possible many residents to go to easily work in the districts of Share-God or Perrache to Lyon.

List Priests of XIIe century to the Révolution

• 1115 - Adalard, prior

• 1149 - Jean, archpriest
• 1266 - Guillaume, chaplain
• 1318 - Pierre S.
• 1326 - Guillaume Marony
• 1329 - Pierre de Vaugrineuse
• 1388 - Jean Pingon
• 14?? - Pierre de Vallignon
• 1436 - Jean Turut
• 1444 - Louis Robin
• 1456 - Louis Favre
• 1479 - Andre Favre, priest of Borough, Charnoz, Senior of Castle-Strapping man (Ain)
• 1510 - Béraud de Molard
• 1554 - Antoine of the Room, bishop of Belley
• 1575 - François Cortois
• 1611 - François Gaudoit, bachelor of law
• 1639 - Rene Parisot
• 1646 - Jean de Jacob
• 1663 - Claude-Bernard Maurier
• 1674 - Nicolas Tool bags, graduate in right
• 1695 - Jacques Meygret
• 1710 - Half-case
• 1714 - Philibert Tardy
• 1737 - Jean-Marie Gayot of Rajasse
• 1782 - Joseph Rivet (relieved in 1791 because it had not lent oath to the civil Constitution of the clergy).

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