At first Anjou was included in the "gouvernement" (or military command) of Orléanais, but in the 17th century was made into a separate one. Saumur, however, and the Saumurois, for which King Henry IV had in 1589 created an independent military governor-generalship in favour of Duplessis-Mornay, continued till the Revolution to form a separate "gouvernement", which included, besides Anjou, portions of Poitou and Mirebalais. Attached to the "généralité" (administrative circumscription) of Tours, Anjou on the eve of the Revolution comprised five "êlections" (judicial districts):--Angers, Baugé, Saumur, Château-Gontier, Montreuil-Bellay and part of the "êlections" of La Flèche and Richelieu. Financially it formed part of the so-called "pays de grande gabelle", and comprised sixteen special tribunals, or "greniers à sel" (salt warehouses):--Angers, Baugé, Beaufort, Bourgueil, Candé, Château-Gontier, Cholet, Craon, La Flèche, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, Ingrandes, Le Lude, Pouancé, Saint-Rémy-la-Varenne, Richelieu, Saumur. From the point of view of purely judicial administration, Anjou was subject to the parlement of Paris; Angers was the seat of a presidial court, of which the jurisdiction comprised the "sénéchaussées" of Angers, Saumur, Beaugé, Beaufort and the duchy of Richelieu; there were besides presidial courts at Château-Gontier and La Flèche. When the Constituent Assembly, on 26 February 1790, decreed the division of France into départments, Anjou and the Saumurois, with the exception of certain territories, formed the départment of Maine-et-Loire, as at present constituted.