LYONNAIS • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Lyonnais

... about his wealth. No single man should know what he had. I have no doubt that he has twenty banking accounts; the bulk of his fortune abroad in the Deutsche Bank or the Credit Lyonnais as likely as not. Sometime when you have a year or two to spare I commend to you the study of ...

— The Valley of Fear • Arthur Conan Doyle

... royalists of the East of France. In fact, widespread risings were expected. Bordeaux had been the centre of a conspiracy for leaguing together the malcontents of la Vendee with those of the South, these again being in touch with the royalists of the Lyonnais and Franche Comte. Wickham, who was sent as British agent to Switzerland in June 1799, opened up an extensive correspondence which promised to lead to a formidable revolt whenever the Allies invaded Franche Comte and Nice. The malcontents had as leaders Generals ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose