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claimed tlieniselves subjects of the King of France and 

 asked him to take them under his special care."^^ The 

 Treaty of Pointoise of 1307 between the king and the 

 Church of Lyons finally established French sovereignty over 

 Lyons. By royal act the text of the treaty was read and 

 explained by the notary Cherubin de Prinn to the people of 

 Lyons. From November 30 to the end of December he pro- 

 ceded from village to village, calling together "by the ring- 

 ing of church bells and the sounding of the rustic horn "" 

 the majority of "the inhabitants and nobles," submitting to 

 them the pact in their own vulgar language and, so Soliere 

 states, " no document relates any refusal of approbation."'* 

 According to Soliere the treaty itself did not recognize 

 the right of the citizens of Lyons to be heard in the transfer 

 of their city to French allegiance. It was only " at the last 

 moment that the king betook himself to reflect that the mat- 

 ters touched in the treaty concerned the Lyonnais rather 

 closely."'* Then by a new act it was ordered that the 

 Lyonnais be consulted, and only then was the decision 

 reached to "heed their objections [rcclaviations^, if such 

 will be justified, or well-founded [s'il y a lieu]." Soliere 



then under that of the Franks (S34), was assigned by the Treaty of 

 Verdun (846) to Lothaire . . . and later came to be one of the 

 possessions of Charles le Chauve (869). In 955 the King of Bur- 

 gundy had the Lyonnais ceded to him by King Lothaire. Having 

 become independent . . . the country was possessed by the Counts 

 of Forez. The German Emperor Frederic I ceded his rights over 

 Lyon and the Lyonnais to the archbishop of Lyon and his Chapter. 

 King Phihppe Auguste [of France] ratified this cession in 1183" 

 (Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX' siccle, Lyonnais). 



31 Soliere, pp. lo-ii. "In the middle ages Lyon was successively 

 a part of the kingdom of the Burgundians, of the empire of Charle- 

 magne, the kingdom of Lothaire; finally, in 879, of the kingdom of 

 the Provence. . . . Owing to the troubles which marked the end of 

 feudalism, tlie temporal power slipped from the house of Bour- 

 gogne . . . (1032), and came to rest, despite the protests of the 

 counts of the Lyonnais and of Forez, in the hands of the arch- 

 bishops (1173). But owing to the appeal of the citizens of Lyon 

 [bourgoisic lyonnaise] to Philippe IV, they [the archbishops] had to 

 share their sovereignty with the King of France (1274) " (Nouveau 

 Larousse illustre, Lyon). This section seems to suggest that in 1274 

 a popular demonstration occurred, similar to, or identical with, the 

 one here cited by Soliere. 



•■•^ Soliere, pp. 10-13. 



" Ibid. 



«« Ibid. 



