Travel Guide Bourgoin-Jallieu

The origins of Bourgoin go back to "Bergusia", a small Gallic village of hunters and fishermen at the crossroads of valleys between the Cold Lands plateau and the plain of Lyon. Remaining modest in the Gallo-Roman period, the town was subjected to the Burgundians and then the Franks. With the feudal regime in place, Bourgoin passed from one sovereignty to another before being definitively linked to the Dauphiné in 1293 and then benefiting from a franchise charter in 1298. Bourgoin's mandate also included Ruy and Jallieu. The section of Jallieu, gathered in Bourgoin in 1654, had been distracted from it and erected as an independent commune in January 1791. The final rapprochement between Jallieu and Bourgoin was ratified by the act of reunion of the two communes, effective in January 1967. The economic development of the town began at the end of the 18th century (painted canvas factories, Indian mills, mills, threshing mills). In the 19th century, cotton and cloth printing factories preceded the textile and mechanical industries. The silk industry and the loom factory were the activities employing the most until the 1970s. At the dawn of the 20th century, the town became, with the factories of Brunet-Lecomte, Diederichs and Dolbeau, the best equipped centre in France for fabric printing. Today, Bourgoin-Jallieu can pride itself on being the capital of photoengraving. If Bourgoin-Jallieu's past is that of a small rural and commercial centre in the Bas-Dauphiné, its future is that of a dynamic medium-sized town like its rugby club: the CSBJ which is omnipresent here.