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The Kingdom of France was organised into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the département system superseded provinces. The change was an attempt to eradicate local loyalties based on feudal ownership of land and focus all loyalty on the central government in Paris. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Shortcut: WP:-( Vandalism is indisputable bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content, made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia. ... Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... A province is a territorial unit, almost always a country subdivision. ... is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1790 (MDCCXC) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar). ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France and many former French colonies, roughly analogous to English counties. ... Feudalism comes from the Late Latin word feudum, itself borrowed from a Germanic root *fehu, a commonly used term in the Middle Ages which means fief, or land held under certain obligations by feodati. ... It has been suggested that List of visitor attractions in Paris be merged into this article or section. ...

The names of the former provinces are still used by geographers to designate natural regions, and several French administrative regions carry their names. is divided into 26 régions, further subdivided into départements. ...

The meaning of "province"

French départements, their names, and their borders were chosen by the central government. In contrast, the existence of provinces came from the droit coutumier ("customary law") and was merely certified by the state. A province, also called a pays ("country"), was characterised by the laws that belonged to it. A province itself could encompass several other provinces. For example, Burgundy was a province but Bresse — another province — was nevertheless a part of Burgundy. In law, custom, or customary law consists of established patterns of behaviour that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. ... Coat of arms of the second Duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy Burgundy (French: ; German: ) is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Celts (Gauls), Romans (Gallo-Romans), and various Germanic peoples, most importantly the Burgundians and the Franks; the former gave their... Bresse is an area of France, in the eastern part of the country, and a former province. ...

There is therefore no official list of provinces. The list of généralités, administrative subdivisions of the kingdom, is often presented when one wants to establish the list of provinces on the eve of the French Revolution. The list below is much larger, encompassing provinces throughout French history. Généralités were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current préfectures. ... The French Revolution (1789–1815) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on...

List of former provinces of France

Provinces

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (894x899, 39 KB) Pre-Republican provinces of France, numbered according to union with France, with provincial capitals marked. ...

Parts of France in 1789

• Alsace
  • Basse-Alsace
  • Haute-Alsace
  • Sundgau
• Angoumois
• Anjou
  • Besugeois
  • Mauges
• Artois
  • Boulonnais
• Aunis
• Auvergne
• Basse-Navarre
• Béarn
  • Soule
• Beaujolais
• Berry
• Bourbonnais
• Burgundy
  • Autunois
  • Auxerrois
  • Auxois
  • Bassigny
  • Châlonnois
  • Charollois
  • Dijonnais
  • Mâconnais
  • Bresse
    • Bugey
    • Dombes
    • Pays de Gex
    • Valromey
• Brittany
• Champagne
  • Brie champenoise
  • Perthois
  • Rhemois
  • Senonais
  • Vallage
• Corsica
• Dauphiné
  • Baronnies
  • Briançonnois
  • Champsaur
  • Diois
  • Gapençais
  • Graisivaudan
  • Embrunais
  • Valentinois
  • Viennois
• Flanders and Hainaut
  • Flandre maritime
  • Flandre wallonne
  • Hainaut (France)
  • Cambresis
• Pays de Foix
  • Donnezan
• Forez
• Franche-Comté
• Gascony
  • Agenois
  • Armagnac
  • Bigorre
  • Comminges
  • Condomois
  • Couserans
  • Estarac
  • Grave
  • Lomagne
  • Marsan
  • Nébouzan
  • Quatre-Vallées
• Guyenne
  • Bordelais
  • Bazadois
  • Chalosse
  • Labourd
  • Lannes
  • Périgord
  • Quercy
  • Rouergue
• Île-de-France
  • Beauvaisis
  • Brie française
  • Gâtinais français
  • Hurepoix
  • Laonnois
  • Mantois
  • Multien
  • Noyonnais
  • Omois
  • Parisis
  • Pays de France
  • Quart de Noyon
  • Soissonnois
  • Vexin français
  • Valois
• Languedoc
  • Gévaudan
  • Principality of Orange
  • Velay
  • Vivarais
• Landau (Imperial Free City occupied in 1680, restored to Bavaria in 1815)
• Limousin
• Lorraine
  • Barrois
• Lyonnais
  • Plat pays de Lyonnais
  • Lyon
  • Franc-Lyonnais
• Maine
• Marche
  • Combrailles
• Nivernais
• Normandie
  • Avranchin
  • Pays d'Auge
  • Bessin
  • Pays de Bray
  • Campagne de Caen
  • Pays de Caux
  • Cotentin
  • Le Houlme
  • Lieuvin
  • Campagne de Neubourg
  • Pays d'Ouche
  • Roumois
  • Campagne de Saint-André
  • Vexin Normand
• Orléanais
  • Blésois
  • Pays chartrain
  • Dunois
  • Gâtinais orléanais
  • Vendômois
• Perche
  • Perche-Gouët
  • Thimerais
• Picardy
  • Amienois
  • Ponthieu
  • Santerre
  • Thiérache
  • Vermandois
  • Vimeu
• Poitou
• Provence
• Roussillon
  • Roussillon
  • Cerdagne
  • Conflent
  • Vallespir
  • Capcir
• Saintonge
• Touraine
• Trois-Évêchés

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Berry was a province of France until the provinces were replaced by départements on March 4, 1790. ... Bourbonnais was an historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher. ... Coat of arms of the second Duchy of Burgundy and later of the French province of Burgundy Burgundy (French: ; German: ) is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Celts (Gauls), Romans (Gallo-Romans), and various Germanic peoples, most importantly the Burgundians and the Franks; the former gave their... Auxerrois is a historical province of France, part of Burgundy. ... Originally from the Cote dOr and Yonne region of France, the Auxois breed is a descendant of the old Burgundian horse, dating back to the Middle Ages. ... The Mâconnais region is the southern limit of the Burgundy region in France(Bourgogne in French). ... Bresse is an area of France, in the eastern part of the country, and a former province. ... The Bugey (French: le Bugey) is a historical region in the département of Ain, France. ... Dombes is a historic region of east-southeastern France, once an independent municipality, formerly part of the province of Burgundy, and now a district comprised in the département of Ain, and bounded W. by the Saone River. ... Historical province of Brittany, showing the main areas with their name in Breton language The traditional flag of Brittany (the Gwenn-ha-du), formerly a Breton nationalist symbol but today used as a general civic flag in the region. ... Location of the Champagne province in France Champagne (archaic English: ) is a historic wine region in the northeast of France, best known for the production of the sparkling white wine that bears the regions name. ... For other uses, see Corsica (disambiguation). ... 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Couserans coat of arms Couserans (pronounced in French) (Gascon: Coseran, pronounced ) is a small former province of France located in the Pyrenees mountains. ... Nébouzan (pronounced in French) (Gascon: Nebosan, pronounced ) was a small province of France located in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, in the southwest of France. ... Quatre-Vallées (i. ... Aquitaine (or Guyenne or Guienne) now forms a région in south-western France along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. ... The Bordelais is a pays of Aquitaine in France, the region surrounding the city of Bordeaux. ... Coat of Arms of Labourd Labourd (Lapurdi in Basque; from Latin Lapurdum, Labord in Gascon) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques département. ... 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Mont Saint Michel is a historic pilgrimage site and a symbol of Normandy Normandy is a former country (a Duchy) situated in northern France occupying the lower Seine area (upper or Haute-Normandie) and the region to the west (lower or Basse-Normandie) as far as the Cotentin Peninsula. ... The Pays dAuge is an area in Normandy, straddling the départements of Calvados and Orne (plus a small part of the territory of Eure). ... The Bessin is an area in Normandy, France, corresponding to the territory of the Bajocasse tribe of Celts who also gave their name to the city of Bayeux, central town of the Bessin. ... // Etymology Etymologically, the name of Bray comes from a Gaulish word for mud. ... // Geography Étretat, falaise daval and the needle The Pays de Caux is a plateau of Upper Cretaceous chalk, like that which forms the North and South Downs in southern England. ... 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Provinces not part of France in 1789

• Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, belonging to the Pope were incorporated in 1791
• Montbéliard was incorporated in 1793 as part of the Rauracian Republic, to which it belonged briefly.
• Mulhouse, an Imperial Free City allied with Switzerland was incorporated in 1798
• Savoy and Nice were temporarily annexed to France in the period 1792-1815 but were restored to the Kingdom of Sardinia by the Congress of Vienna. Only in 1860 were they annexed again to France.
• Several other territories along the northern border of Alsace and Lorraine were also incorporated during the course of the French Revolution.

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See also

• Lists of unofficial regions by country
• Ancien Régime in France