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Español: Francia en 1789
English: Map of administrative divisions of France in 1789
Provinces as follows, in the format English name (French name, Year of union; Capital):
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Royal Domain (
Île-de-France,
987,
Paris)
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Berry (
Berry,
1101,
Bourges)
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Duchy of Orléanais (
Orléanais,
1198,
Orléans)
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Normandy (
Normandie,
1204,
Rouen)
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Languedoc, mainly the County of Toulouse (
Languedoc,
1270,
Toulouse)
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Lyonnais (
Lyonnais,
1313,
Lyon)
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Dauphiné, (
Dauphiné,
1349,
Grenoble)
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County of Champagne (
Champagne,
1361,
Troyes)
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Aunis, a fief of
Aquitaine (
Aunis,
1371,
La Rochelle)
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Saintonge (
Saintonge,
1371,
Saintes)
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Poitou (
Poitou,
1416,
Poitiers)
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Duchy of Aquitaine (
Aquitaine,
1453,
Bordeaux), taken from
England and split into provinces of
Gascogne (
Armagnac) and
Guyenne (
Bordeaux), but excluding the viscounties of Foix, Béarn,
Bigorre and
Périgord (kept by
Navarre)
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Duchy of Burgundy (
Bourgogne,
1477,
Dijon)
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Picardy (
Picardie,
1482,
Amiens)
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Anjou (
Anjou,
1482,
Angers)
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County of Provence (
Provence,
1482,
Aix-en-Provence)
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County of Angoulême (
Angoumois,
1515,
Angoulême)
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Duchy of Bourbon (
Bourbonnais,
1527,
Moulins)
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La Marche (
Marche,
1527,
Guéret)
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Duchy of Britanny (
Bretagne,
1532,
Rennes)
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County of Maine (
Maine,
1584,
Le Mans) and
County of Perche (
Perche,
1525,
Nogent-le-Rotrou)
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Touraine (
Touraine,
1584,
Tours)
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Limousin (
Limousin,
1589,
Limoges), excluding
Viscounty of Périgord (kept by
Navarre)
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County of Foix (
Comté de Foix,
1607,
Foix) and
Viscounty of Périgord (Périgord, 1607,
Périgueux, attached to province of Guyenne), both former fiefs from Navarre
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Duchy of Auvergne (
Auvergne,
1610,
Clermont-Ferrand)
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Viscounty of Béarn (
Béarn,
1620,
Pau)
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Alsace (
Alsace,
1648,
Strasbourg)
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County of Artois, a fief of the
w:Habsburgs'
Spanish Netherlands (
Artois,
1659,
Arras)
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Roussillon (
Roussillon,
1659,
Perpignan)
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Flanders, a fief of the
w:Habsburgs'
Spanish Netherlands (
Flandre,
1668,
Lille)
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Free County of Burgundy (
Franche-Comté,
1678,
Besançon)
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Duchy of Lorraine, a personal territory of
Stanisław I of Poland within the
Holy Roman Empire (
Lorraine,
1766,
Nancy)
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Corsica (
Corse,
1768,
Ajaccio)
The following were not provinces of France before the Revolution, but joined or were annexed to France after it, when departments had replaced all former provinces:
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Duchy of Nivernais (
Nivernais,
1789,
Nevers)
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Comtat Venaissin, a
Papal fief (
Comtat Venaissain,
1791,
Avignon)
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County of Saarwerden (
Comté de Sarrewerden,
1793)
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Principality of Salm-Salm (
Principauté de Salm-Salm,
1793)
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Imperial Free City of
Mulhouse (
Mulhouse,
1798)
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Principality of Montbéliard (
Principauté de Montbéliard,
1816,
Montbéliard)
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Duchy of Savoy, a state of the
Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (
Savoie,
1860,
Chambéry)
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County of Nice, a state of the
Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (
Comté de Nice,
1860,
Nice)
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Free cities of Menton and Roquebrune (
1861), joining France after the separation (under the protectorate of
Sardinia) in
1848 from
Monaco
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