A Literary Tour de France
Bourg-en-Bresse
Summary
Population: | about 7,000 in 1780. |
Book Trade: | three booksellers and one small printer. |
Institutions: | royal subdélégation, bailliage court of justice, and tax élection. |
Culture: |
college, large theater, learned academy (founded in 1783), and reading cabinet. literacy (for entire département): male 25%, female 11%. |
Communications: | stop on post road from Besançon to Lyon. |
Economy: | regional commercial center. Grain, poultry, cattle, horses, wood and timber, leather, cloth. |