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DOMBES , a See also:district of eastern See also:France, formerly See also:part of the See also:province of See also:Burgundy, now comprised in the See also:department of See also:Ain, and bounded W. by the See also:Saone, S. by the See also:Rhone, E. by the Ain and N. by the district of See also:Bresse. The region forms an undulating See also:plateau with a slight slope towards the See also:north-See also:west, the higher ground bordering the Ain and the Rhone attaining an See also:average height of about See also:i000 ft. The Dombes is characterized by an impervious See also:surface consisting of See also:boulder See also:clay and other See also:relics of glacial See also:action. To this fact is due the large number of See also:rain-See also:water pools, varying for the most part from 35 to 250 acres in See also:size which See also:cover some 23,000 acres of its See also:total See also:area of 282,000 acres. These pools, artificially created, date in many cases from the 15th See also:century, some to earlier periods, and were formed by landed proprietors who in those disturbed times saw a surer source of See also:revenue in See also:fish-breeding than in See also:agriculture. Disease and depopulation resulted from this policy and at the end of the 18th century the Legislative See also:Assembly decided to reduce the area of the pools which then covered twice their See also:present extent. Drainage See also:works were continued, roads cut, and other improvements effected during the 19th century. Large See also:numbers of fish, principally See also:carp, See also:pike and See also:tench are still reared profitably, the pools being periodically dried up and the ground cultivated.
The Dombes (See also:Lat. Dumbae) once formed part of the See also:kingdom of See also:Arles. In the 11th century, when the kingdom began to break up, the See also:northern part of the Dombes came under the See also:power of the lords of Baugh, and in 1218, by the See also:marriage of See also:Marguerite de Baugh with See also:Humbert IV. of See also:Beaujeu, passed to the lords of Beaujeu. The See also:southern portion was held in See also:succession by the lords of See also:Villars and of Thoire. Its lords took See also:advantage of the See also:excommunication of the See also:emperor See also:Frederick II. to assert their See also:complete See also:independence of the See also:Empire. In 1400, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis II., See also:duke of See also:Bourbon, acquired the northern part of the Dombes, together with the lordship of Beaujeu, and two years later bought the southern part from the sires de Thoire, forming the whole into a new See also:sovereign principality of the Dombes, with Trevoux as its See also:capital. The principality was confiscated by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Francis I. in 1523, along with the other possessions of the See also:- CONSTABLE (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable de Bourbon, was granted in 1527 to the See also:queen-See also:mother, See also:Louise of See also:Savoy, and after her See also:death was held successively by See also:kings Francis I., See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. and Francis II., and by See also:Catherine de' See also:Medici. In 1561 it was granted to Louis, duke of Bourbon-See also:Montpensier, by whose descendants it was held till, in 1682, " Mademoiselle," the duchess of Montpensier, gave it to Louis XIV.'s See also:bastard, the duke of See also:Maine, as part of the See also:price for the See also:release of her See also:lover See also:Lauzun. The eldest son of the duke of Maine,
Louis Auguste de Bourbon (1700--1755), See also:prince of Dombes, served in the See also:army of Prince See also:Eugene against the See also:Turks (1717), took part
in the See also:War of the See also:Polish Succession (1733-1734), and in that of the See also:Austrian Succession (1742-1747). He was made See also:colonel-See also:general
of the Swiss See also:regiment, See also:governor of See also:Languedoc and See also:master of the hounds of France. He was succeeded, as prince of Dombes, by his See also:brother the See also:count of Eu (q.v.), who in 1762 surrendered the principality to the See also:crown. The little principality of Dombes showed in some respects signs of a vigorous See also:life; the prince's See also:mint and See also:printing works at Trevoux were See also:long famous, and the See also:college at Thoissey was well endowed and influential.
See A. M. H. J. Stokvis, See also:Manuel d'histoire (See also:Leiden, 1889) ; Guichenon, Histoire de Dombes (1863, 1872); and various works by M. C. Guigue, including Bibliotheca Dumbensis (with Valentin See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith) (1856-1885).
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