Trévoux
Encyclopedia
Trévoux is a commune
in the Ain
department in eastern France
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It is a suburb of Lyon
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principality, and famed for its dictionary. The town was a sub-prefecture of Ain until 1926.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Ain
Ain
Ain is a department named after the Ain River on the eastern edge of France. Being part of the region Rhône-Alpes and bordered by the rivers Saône and Rhône, the department of Ain enjoys a privileged geographic situation...
department in eastern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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It is a suburb of Lyon
Lyon
Lyon , is a city in east-central France in the Rhône-Alpes region, situated between Paris and Marseille. Lyon is located at from Paris, from Marseille, from Geneva, from Turin, and from Barcelona. The residents of the city are called Lyonnais....
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History
The town was the capital of the DombesDombes
The Dombes is an area in South-Eastern France, once an independent municipality, formerly part of the province of Burgundy, and now a district comprised in the département of Ain, and bounded W. by the Saône River, by the Rhône, E. by the Ain and N...
principality, and famed for its dictionary. The town was a sub-prefecture of Ain until 1926.
Population
Personalities
Trévoux was the birthplace of- Arthur GiryArthur GiryJean-Marie-Joseph-Arthur Giry was a French historian, noted for his studies of France in the Middle Ages....
(1848–1899), historian. - François-Marie TreyveFrançois-Marie Treyve-Life:Treyve originated from Trévoux. He was trained by his father-in-law, Joseph Marie. In the 1880s he was appointed Inspector of Parks and Gardens of Vichy. He took over from his father-in-law at Moulins in 1881 and set up the landscape gardening firm Établissements Treyve-Marie, in which he in...
(1847–1906) writer and landscape gardener. He designed the park of the Célestins in VichyVichyVichy is a commune in the department of Allier in Auvergne in central France. It belongs to the historic province of Bourbonnais.It is known as a spa and resort town and was the de facto capital of Vichy France during the World War II Nazi German occupation from 1940 to 1944.The town's inhabitants...
and formed in 1881 the Établissements Treyve-Marie.