Manuscript. Lyonnais. HERBIGNY (Henri-François... Lot 41

[Manuscript]. [Lyonnais]. HERBIGNY (Henri-François Lambert d'). Mémoire sur le gouvernement de Lyon, drawn up by Mr. D'Herbigny, intendant in Lyon, in 1701. In-folio, [1] f., 261 p., covered in medium, very legible handwriting (approx. 30 lines per page). Contemporary fawn basane, spine decorated with fleur-de-lys caissons, framed with simple cold fillet on the boards, edges speckled with red, leather missing from the spine, boards very rubbed. A fine copy of this text, written in 1697 as part of the large series of Mémoires des intendants sur l'état de leurs généralités, drawn up for the instruction of Mgr le Duc de Bourgogne. A printed edition was published in 1902 by historian Marie Chavanne. Henri-François Lambert d'Herbigny (?-1704) was intendant of the generality of Montauban, then of Lyon (from 1694 to 1700). He carried out his survey simply by sending a questionnaire to the parish priests of 134 parishes within his jurisdiction, without really criticizing the answers, which explains both the importance of the strictly ecclesiastical part of the description, and a rather perceptible pessimism about the management of the generality. As with all the memoirs for the instruction of the Duke of Burgundy, we can only emphasize its interest for the knowledge of the Lyonnais, Beaujolais, Roannais and Dombes regions at the end of the reign of Louis XIV.