Trévoux

Trévoux
Commune
Octagonal tower of the chateau
Coat of arms
Location of Trévoux
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Coordinates: 45°56′28″N4°46′30″E / 45.9411°N 4.775000°E / 45.9411; 4.775000
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton	Trévoux
Intercommunality	Dombes Saône Vallée
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marc Péchoux [1]
Area 1	5.71 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [2]	6,947
• Density	1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01427 /01600
Elevation	167–256 m (548–840 ft) (avg. 177 m or 581 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Trévoux (French pronunciation: [tʁevu] ; Arpitan : Trevôrs) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. The inhabitants are known as Trévoltiens.

It is a popular destination outside of Lyon, built on the steeply sloping left bank of the river Saône and is known for its fort

History

In AD 843, the treaty of Verdun divided up the empire of Charlemagne. The river Saône became the frontier between France and the Empire. It is thanks to this border location that Trévoux gained its particular political status.

In the 11th century it was included in the domain of the lords of Thoire-Villars, from whom it acquired its freedom. It was bought by the Bourbons in 1402, became the capital of the Dombes, and had its own mint. ^[3] From that time, the Trévoux river toll became important, and the town built a castle and walls.

On the 30th of June 1417, the local baron issued a decree allowing the local Jewish population to continue to study the Talmud, contrary to the decision taken in Chambéry in January 1417 as a result of which Jewish books had been seized and burned.

In 1523, the French king François the 1st confiscated the Dombes region and founded a parliament for the region in Lyon. In 1560, the Dombes region fell to the Bourbons. The town then became rich as the capital of Dombes principality and seat of its parliament from 1697 to 1771. In 1603 a printing works was established there, from which in the 18th century the Journal de Trévouse and a universal dictionary known as the Dictionnaire de Trévoux was printed there from 1704 to 1771 by the Jesuits. ^[3]

At the end of the 17th century, two important sovereign princes, Anne-Marie Louise of Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier known as "la Grande Mademoiselle", and her successor Louis-Auguste of Bourbon, duke of Maine, raised two monuments which are still notable in the landscape: the Montpensier hospital and the Palace of the Dombes Parliament.

In 1762, the principality of the Dombes was definitively absorbed into France.

The town was a sub-prefecture of Ain until 1926.

From the end of the 19th century until the 1950s, Trévoux was the global capital of the manufacture of synthetic diamonds.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 2,656 —     1800 2,530 −0.69% 1806 2,717 +1.20% 1821 3,016 +0.70% 1831 2,556 −1.64% 1836 2,559 +0.02% 1841 2,684 +0.96% 1846 2,532 −1.16% 1851 3,071 +3.94% 1856 2,749 −2.19% 1861 2,794 +0.33% 1866 2,863 +0.49% 1872 2,655 −1.25% 1876 2,889 +2.13% 1881 2,698 −1.36% 1886 2,661 −0.28% 1891 2,687 +0.19% 1896 2,662 −0.19%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,821 +1.17% 1906 2,624 −1.44% 1911 3,072 +3.20% 1921 2,941 −0.43% 1926 3,122 +1.20% 1931 3,093 −0.19% 1936 3,004 −0.58% 1946 2,961 −0.14% 1954 3,229 +1.09% 1962 3,594 +1.35% 1968 4,231 +2.76% 1975 4,583 +1.15% 1982 4,982 +1.20% 1990 6,092 +2.55% 1999 6,392 +0.54% 2007 6,790 +0.76% 2012 6,714 −0.22% 2017 6,845 +0.39%
Source: EHESS [4] and INSEE (1968-2017) [5]

Personalities

Trévoux was the birthplace of

• Arthur Giry (1848–1899), historian.
• François-Marie Treyve (1847–1906) writer and landscape gardener. He designed the park of the Célestins in Vichy and formed in 1881 the Établissements Treyve-Marie.

See also

• Communes of the Ain department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Trévoux". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 257.
4. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Trévoux, EHESS (in French).
5. Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 2 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine , INSEE

External links

• Official website
• La Dombes and the city of Trévoux