A Literary Tour de France
Dijon
Summary
Population: | 20,000 in 1780. |
Book Trade: | ten booksellers and four printers. Active book trade and printing industry. Guild, chambre syndicale, and inspector of the book trade. |
Institutions: | capital of Burgundy, with royal Intendance, military government, parlement high court of justice, Cour des aides and Chambre des comptes financial courts, tax généralité, trade court, and bishopric. |
Culture |
university (of Law only), college of medicine, college, drawing school, learned academy, theater, concerts, newspaper, and reading cabinet. high literacy (for entire département): male 54%, female 26%. |
Communications: | destination and overnight stop on diligence post road from Paris to Geneva. On alternate road from Paris to Lyon |
Economy: | commercial city. Wine, grain, wool, iron, silk and woolens, calicoes, mustard. |