Trévoux

Trévoux stands on the Saône as the capital of the small principality of Dombes. Its sovereign princes maintained their own court of justice, which moved from Lyon to Trévoux under the Duke of Maine. The town also gained a reputation for printing: its presses issued the Journal de Trévoux from 1701 and the Dictionnaire de Trévoux from 1704. In 1762 the Count of Eu ceded Dombes to Louis XV, ending the principality's separate sovereignty.