Ville de Renouille

The City of Rénouille is the capital of Courteaux and the "modern" seat of house d'Ortonnaise, relocated from Rochevrais and Naise under the reign of Ethanie II in 297AC. Though the city has always been a busy trade port along the Cour river in the middle of the heartlands, it maintained a stern rivalry with Coulemar for local hegemony, the latter being the region's most prominent sea-side harbour.

History
Rénouille was founded in 157AC, two years after Coulemar and during the Ithanian Gem Boom. The city grew explosively during the following years thanks to the large influx of Ithanian migrants as well as its central location and proximity to sea-borne trade through the Cour river. By the turn of the century, the city became the second-largest settlement in Courteaux.

The fall in migration and the subsequent Regalian Pessimism took its toll on Rénouille and the city's growth slowed to the point it started losing population to all the Ithanians who opted to move to the countryside plantations and estates. The so-called "Années Sombres" saw the development of the derelict slums within the city and a downwards curve in the quality of city life.

In 292AC, Ethanie II declared in her coronation address that she would like to see the capital of the d'Ortonnaise realms re-located to a more proper, more urbanised and more central area of Courteaux. Rénouille was the prime choice and the Matriarch had a whole array of architectural plans sketched out to re-form the busy river-port into a capital of high culture rivaling the cities of the Ithanian motherland.

The Grande Règle du Palais d'Ortonnaise was constructed between 292AC and 297AC to serve as the governmental and aristocratic centre of Courteaux. The Matriarch moved her court into the city straight away and declared it the new capital. Though it's been a bureaucratic centre for little short than a decade now, the renovations are still incomplete and underway.