Lyonnais, a former province of France, was bounded on the W. by Auvergne and on the S. by Languedoc. Its territory coincides nearly with the present departments of Rhone, Loire, Haute-Loire, and Puy-de-Dôme.
Lyonnais
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 756
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