WebTerminology. A commune is the smallest and oldest administrative division in France. " Commune" in English has a historical association with socialist and collectivist political movements and philosophies.This association arises in part from the rising of the Paris Commune, 1871, which could have more felicitously been called, in English, "the rising of …

WebLot is part of the region of Occitanie and is surrounded by the departments of Corrèze, Cantal, Aveyron, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot-et-Garonne and Dordogne.. Cahors is the prefecture of the department, lying in its southwestern part: a medieval cathedral town known internationally for its production of Cahors wine, it lies in a wide loop of the Lot River and …

WebLandes (French pronunciation: (); Gascon and Occitan: Lanas; Basque: Landak) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, Southwestern France, with a long coastline on the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It borders Gers to the east, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, to the south, Lot-et-Garonne to the north-east, and Gironde to the north. It also borders the …

WebHistory. Hautes-Alpes is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It consists of the southeast of the former province of Dauphiné and the north of Provence.. At the time when the department was created, the two mountain communes of La Grave and Villar-d'Arêne successfully campaigned to be …

WebThe present department consists of the historical region of Léon and parts of Cornouaille and Trégor, both parts of pre-revolutionary Brittany.. The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth. In England, a similar area is called Land's End.The Breton name for Finistère, Penn ar Bed, translates as "Head/End of the World" …

WebArdennes is part of the Ardennes, a plateau deeply cut by the Meuse and its many tributaries which reach into Wallonia in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany (), and the north of the neighbouring department of Meuse.. Covering 5,229 square kilometres (2,019 square miles), the department was the smallest among the four contributors to Champagne …

WebHistory. Saint-Vallier in Drôme was the birthplace of one of France's most famous courtesans, the noble-born Diane de Poitiers (1499–1566), long-term mistress of King Henri II (1519–1559).. The French National Constituent Assembly set up Drôme as one of the original 83 departments of France on March 4, 1790, during the French Revolution.The …

WebNord (French pronunciation: (); officially French: département du Nord; Picard: départémint dech Nord; Dutch: Noorderdepartement, lit. 'Northern Department') is a department in Hauts-de-France region, France bordering Belgium.It was created from the western halves of the historical counties of Flanders and Hainaut, and the Bishopric of Cambrai. ...

WebAveyron (French pronunciation: (); Occitan: Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France.It was named after the river Aveyron.Its inhabitants are known as Aveyronnais (masculine) or Aveyronnaises (feminine) in French. The inhabitants of Aveyron's prefecture, Rodez, are called Ruthénois, based upon the first Celtic settlers in …

WebHistory. Loire was created in 1793 when the Rhône-et-Loire department was split into two, about 3½ years after it was created. This was a response to counter-revolutionary activities in Lyon which, by population, was the country's second largest city. By splitting Rhône-et-Loire the government sought to protect the French Revolution from the potential power …