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The département lists, once approved by the government, were published in the Bulletin des lois in 1801 and 1802 ; these lists are still the basis of the administrative divisions of France in place today, although cantons with small populations have been eliminated and new cantons created in areas of strong demographic growth.
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The following lists give the communes of France within each département:
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La Bruyère was born in Paris, ( not, as was once thought, at Dourdan ( in today's Essonne département )) in 1645.
During the French occupation of the Napoleonic period it was included in the Ruhr département, but once returned to the rule of Prussia, the district of Hamm was recreated, although with several changes.
Bec Abbey () in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, once the most influential abbeys in the Anglo-Norman kingdom of the twelfth century, is a Benedictine monastic foundation in the Eure département, in the Bec valley midway between the cities of Rouen and Bernay.
It is maybe further west, in Hautes-Pyrénées, around Lannemezan, that Nébouzan is most remembered, because people there feel quite distinct from Bigorre ( with which the Hautes-Pyrénées département is too often confused ), and so they like to mention that their area was once Nébouzan, not Bigorre.
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West Flemish is spoken by around 1. 05 million people in West Flanders ( in Belgium ), 90, 000 in the neighbouring Dutch coastal district of Zeelandic Flanders, and approximately 20, 000 in the northern part of the French département of Nord where it is classified, as a recognized dialect of Dutch, as one of the languages of France.
During the War of the First Coalition, Luxembourg was conquered and annexed by Revolutionary France, becoming part of the département of the Forêts in 1795.
By the Treaty of Campo Formio, Corfu was ceded to the French, who occupied it for two years as the département Corcyre, until they were expelled by a joint Russian-Ottoman squadron under Admiral Ushakov.
The extra deputies were to be elected by the wealthiest quarter of the population in each département.
* The setting up of emergency groups in each département coordinated by the senior local representatives of the government at département level ( préfets ), with the objective of examining individual payments to those most in need ( 1998 ).
Llívia is a town of Cerdanya, province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain, that forms a Spanish exclave surrounded by French territory ( Pyrénées-Orientales département ).
Historically the area broadly covered by the département was known as Bigorre, a territory at times independent but later part of Gascony province.
Today, having undergone extensive renovation, it is owned by the département and houses the Musée des Goums Marocains. So in the 20 century the castle became a museum during 50 years.
In 1793, the foreign enclaves of Manderen, Lixing-lès-Rouhling, Momerstroff, and Créhange ( Kriechingen ), all possessions of princes of the German Holy Roman Empire, were annexed by France and incorporated into the Moselle département.
Niort in the south of the département is connected to Paris and Bordeaux by the A10 motorway, with Nantes by the A83, with La Rochelle and Poitiers by the N11.
The north and south of the département are connected by relatively minor roads, with the D743 and D748 linking Niort to Parthenay and Bressuire respectively, whilst the D938 connects to Thouars.
The city is also connected to the rest of the Calvados département by the Bus Verts du Calvados bus network.
The city was again occupied by the French on 5 April 1794 and officially became part of the French département Meuse-Inférieure from 1795 to 1814.
In the following month he was elected to the French National Assembly by the département Côte-d ' Or.
Born at Colmar ( now in the département of Haut-Rhin ), he became president of the local order of lawyers, and in 1789 was elected as a deputy to the Estates-General by the Third Estate of the bailliage of Colmar-Schlestadt.
His moderation caused his election by seventeen département to the Council of Five Hundred.
In 1874 he was elected General Councillor of the Aube département, and was sent by the same département to the Chamber of Deputies in the general elections of 1876, and he was always re-elected until his presidency.
After standing unsuccessfully for a Chamber of Deputies seat for the département of the Aisne constituency in 1865 and 1860, Waddington was returned by that constituency in the election of 1871.
Under the Second Empire, he helped found a Liberal journal, Le Progrès de la Somme, and in July 1871 he was sent by the département of the Somme to the National Assembly, where he took his place on the extreme left.
For neglecting to protect the Tuileries he was suspended from his functions by the Directory of the Seine département, but the leaders of the Legislative Assembly felt that Pétion's cause was theirs, and rescinded the suspension on 13 July.
Fléchier was born at Pernes-les-Fontaines, in the département of Vaucluse, in the Comtat Venaissin, and brought up at Tarascon by his uncle, Hercule Audiffret, superior of the Congrégation des Doctrinaires.
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In 1863 he was returned to the Corps Législatif for the 8th circonscription of the Seine département, and supported " les Cinq " in their opposition to the government.
On the fall of the Second French Empire in September 1870 the government of national defence appointed him prefect of the Rhône département, in which capacity he had to suppress the Communist rising at Lyon.
Posthumously, the government of France awarded him the Legion of Honor, and as one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, he is listed on the " Roll of Honour " on the Valençay SOE Memorial in the town of Valençay in the Indre département.
The département prefects were told by the government to group the communes within newly established cantons.
In 1790, the Revolutionary government designated Mâcon as the capital ( chef-lieu ) of Saône-et-Loire, a newly-created département within the radical restructuring of national administration.
The plan of the Jacobins of the Assembly, supported by the armed fédérés, was to dissolve the département of Paris, to dismiss Pétion, and to institute an insurrectionary commune ( municipal government ), then to assault the Tuileries.
Eventually, in 1835, on the initiative of Rambuteau, préfet of the Seine département, two wings were added to the main building and were linked to the facade by a gallery, to provide more space for the expanded city government.
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They and other regions were consolidated into a single département in 1790 under the name Basses-Pyrénées, a name which persisted until 1970.
On 25 June 1793 Avignon and Comtat-Venaissin were integrated along with the former principality of Orange to form the present republican département Vaucluse.
Other scenes were filmed at the train station and the nearby vineyards around the small hamlet of La Ravelle, which is part of the town of Paulhaguet in the Haute-Loire département in the Auvergne région of south central France.
In 1800 five arrondissements were created within the département, namely Rouen, Le Havre, Dieppe, Neufchatel and Yvetot, although the latter two were disbanded in 1926.
As a result, the French exclave of Tholey ( now in Saarland, Germany ) as well as a few communes near Sierck-les-Bains ( both territories until then part of the Moselle département ) were ceded to Austria.
On the other hand, the French annexations of 1793 were confirmed, and furthermore, the south of the Napoleonic département of Sarre was ceded to France, including the town of Lebach, the city of Saarbrücken, and the rich coal basin nearby.
Early European colonists, who would later become known as Acadians, were French subjects primarily from the Pleumartin to Poitiers in the Vienne département of west-central France.
The town of Belfort and the area around it ( now the French département of Territoire de Belfort ) were generally unaffected, because their inhabitants were predominantly native French speakers and because Belfort has been heroically defended by Colonel Denfert-Rochereau, who surrendered only after receiving orders from Paris.
This area corresponded to the French départements of Bas-Rhin ( in its entirety ), Haut-Rhin ( except the area of Belfort and Montbéliard ), and a small area in the northeast of the Vosges département, all of which made up Alsace, and the départements of Moselle ( four-fifths of it ) and the northeast of Meurthe ( one-third of Meurthe ), which were the eastern part of Lorraine.
The new border between France and Germany mainly followed the geolinguistic divide between Romance and Germanic dialects, except in a few valleys of the Alsatian side of the Vosges mountains, the city of Metz and in the area of Château-Salins ( formerly in the Meurthe département ), which were annexed by Germany despite the fact that people there spoke French.
Of the remaining 6 % of Seine-et-Oise, 18 communes were grouped with 29 communes of the Seine département to create the Val-de-Marne département.
16 communes of Seine-et-Oise were grouped with 24 communes of the Seine département to create the Seine-Saint-Denis département.
Finally, the last 9 communes of Seine-et-Oise were grouped with 27 communes of the Seine département to create the Hauts-de-Seine département.
Operating from a base in Saint-Quentin in the northern Aisne département, Biéler's twenty-five teams, scattered over different areas of northern France, were successful in damaging or destroying German gasoline storage tanks, rail lines, bridges, canal locks, and the electric tractors used to tow barges on the shipping waterways.
They were more numerous than today ( between 40 and 60 to each département ).
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