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Summary
Español:
Provincias de Francia
Pre-Republican provinces of France , numbered according to union with France , with provincial capitals marked.
Created by reference to a 1952 Nouveau Petit Larousse by User:OwenBlacker and licenced under the GFDL .
Provinces as follows, in the format English name ( French name , Year of union; Capital):
- Royal Domain ( Île-de-France , 987 , Paris )
- Berry ( Berry , 1101 , Bourges )
- Duchy of Orléanais ( Orléanais , 1198 , Orléans )
- Normandy ( Normandie , 1204 , Rouen )
- Languedoc , mainly the County of Toulouse ( Languedoc , 1270 , Toulouse )
- Lyonnais ( Lyonnais , 1313 , Lyon )
- Dauphiné , ( Dauphiné , 1349 , Grenoble )
- County of Champagne ( Champagne , 1361 , Troyes )
- Aunis , a fief of Aquitaine ( Aunis , 1371 , La Rochelle )
- Saintonge ( Saintonge , 1371 , Saintes )
- Poitou ( Poitou , 1416 , Poitiers )
- 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 )
- Duchy of Burgundy ( Bourgogne , 1477 , Dijon )
- Picardy ( Picardie , 1482 , Amiens )
- Anjou ( Anjou , 1482 , Angers )
- County of Provence ( Provence , 1482 , Aix-en-Provence )
- County of Angoulême ( Angoumois , 1515 , Angoulême )
- Duchy of Bourbon ( Bourbonnais , 1527 , Moulins )
- La Marche ( Marche , 1527 , Guéret )
- Duchy of Britanny ( Bretagne , 1532 , Rennes )
- County of Maine ( Maine , 1584 , Le Mans ) and County of Perche ( Perche , 1525 , Nogent-le-Rotrou )
- Touraine ( Touraine , 1584 , Tours )
- Limousin ( Limousin , 1589 , Limoges ), excluding Viscounty of Périgord (kept by Navarre )
- 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
- Duchy of Auvergne ( Auvergne , 1610 , Clermont-Ferrand )
- Viscounty of Béarn ( Béarn , 1620 , Pau )
- Alsace ( Alsace , 1648 , Strasbourg )
- County of Artois , a fief of the w:Habsburgs ' Spanish Netherlands ( Artois , 1659 , Arras )
- Roussillon ( Roussillon , 1659 , Perpignan )
- Flanders , a fief of the w:Habsburgs ' Spanish Netherlands ( Flandre , 1668 , Lille )
- Free County of Burgundy ( Franche-Comté , 1678 , Besançon )
- Duchy of Lorraine , a personal territory of Stanisław I of Poland within the Holy Roman Empire ( Lorraine , 1766 , Nancy )
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Corsica
(off map,
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: - Duchy of Nivernais ( Nivernais , 1789 , Nevers )
- Comtat Venaissin , a Papal fief ( Comtat Venaissain , 1791 , Avignon )
- Imperial Free City of Mulhouse ( Mulhouse , 1798 )
- Duchy of Savoy , a state of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont ( Savoie , 1860 , Chambéry )
- County of Nice , a state of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont ( Comté de Nice , 1860 , Nice )
- Principality of Montbéliard ( Montbéliard , 1816 , Montbéliard )
- 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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