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The names of the historical French provinces — such as Brittany ( Bretagne ), Berry, Orléanais, Normandy ( Normandie ), Languedoc, Lyonnais, Dauphiné, Champagne, Poitou, Guyenne and Gascony ( Gascogne ), Burgundy ( Bourgogne ), Picardy ( Picardie ), Provence, Touraine, Limousin, Auvergne, Béarn, Alsace, Flanders, Lorraine, Corsica ( Corse ), Savoy ( Savoie )... ( please see individual articles for specifics about each regional culture ) — are still used to designate natural, historical and cultural regions, and many of them appear in modern région or département names.
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