Jean Chanorier
Jean Chanorier (16 November 1746, Lyon – 29 May 1806, Croissy-sur-Seine), was a French agronomist and politician. Lord and then mayor of Croissy-sur-Seine, he was a legislator, then general councilor for Seine-et-Oise and associate member of the Institut de France, Institut of France. He is best known for introducing the Merino List of sheep breeds, sheep breed to France. His friendship with Joséphine de Beauharnais earned him government protection under the Consulate, and his election to the Institut de France, Institut. Biography Lord of Croissy Jean Chanorier was the only son of Hugues Eustache Chanorier (d. 1769), an equerry, King's secretary, Taille, collector of taxes for the election of Lyon, then former general collector of finances for the region of Auch, and his wife Jeanne Marie Philippe Pollet. His grandfather Eustache Chanorier, who had renounced the right of bourgeoisie in Lyon in 1702, was judge and mayor of Cluny, lieutenant of the election and represent ...
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Lyon
Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, northeast of Saint-Étienne. The City of Lyon proper had a population of 522,969 in 2019 within its small municipal territory of , but together with its suburbs and exurbs the Lyon metropolitan area had a population of 2,280,845 that same year, the second most populated in France. Lyon and 58 suburban municipalities have formed since 2015 the Metropolis of Lyon, a directly elected metropolitan authority now in charge of most urban issues, with a population of 1,411,571 in 2019. Lyon is the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and seat of the Departmental Council of Rhône (whose jurisdiction, however, no longer extends over the Metropolis of Lyo ...
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