Yvetot

Yvetot, an old town in the dep. of Seine-Inférieure, 24 m. NW. of Rouen, with manufactures of textile fabrics, and a trade in agricultural produce, the seigneurs of which long bore the title of king, “Roi d'Yvetot,” a title satirically applied by Béranger to Napoleon, and often employed to denote an insignificant potentate with large pretensions.

Population (circa 1900) given as 7,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

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Yvetot in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable

Links here from Chalmers

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