Moulins is the capital of the Bourbonnais—the name given to the province and the people alike.
But, in the Bourbonnais, flat and open as it is, the scene begins to change.
To the Corsican intruder the peasant of Beauce was just the same as the peasant of the Bourbonnais—merely a fighting machine.
He was born at Moulins (Bourbonnais) on the 21st of August 1670.
It is the quiet chef lieu of the Allier, and was once the capital of the Bourbonnais.
