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Bourbonnais shieldBourbonnais

(būr-bôN-nā´) (pron: boor-bone-ay)

Capital: Moulins (pron: moo-lan)
French annexation: 1527

The diagonal “riband” on this shield may represent knighthood or a ladder for scaling fortification walls.

Bourbonnais provincial map