History of the Rhone
The department of the the Rhone was created during the French revolution, in 1793, by dismemberment of the department of the Rhone-and-Loire, and corresponds to the provinces of the Lyonnais and the Beaujolais.
The department increased on several occasions communes of the surroundings of Lyon, taken at the close departments:
- in 1790 the the Rhone-and-Loire obtained the fastening of the district of Guillotière pertaining to the province of the Dauphiné.
- in 1852, 4 communes of the Isere (Bron, Vaulx-in-Vellum, Vénissieux and Villeurbanne; Saint-Fons belonging to Vénissieux until in 1888);
- in 1967, 6 communes of the Ain and 23 communes of the Isere;
- in 1971, 1 commune of the Isere (Dovecote-Saugnieu).
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