Parts of the French Republic

French Republic


Aix-la-Chapelle

Paris

Departments

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Post number Name Prefecture Created on Area (km^2) Additional notes
1 Ain Bourg 4 March 1790 5,499.63 [...]
2 Aisne Laon 4 March 1790 7,491.83 [...]
3 Allier Moulins 4 March 1790 7,422.72 [...]
5 Basses-Alpes Digne 4 March 1790 7,450.07 [...]
4 Hautes-Alpes Gap 4 March 1790 5,535.69 [...]
6 Ardèche Privas 4 March 1790 5,500.04 [...]
7 Ardennes Mézières 4 March 1790 5,252.81 [...]
8 Ariège Foix 4 March 1790 5,295.40 [...]
9 Aube Troyes 4 March 1790 6,106.08 [...]
10 Aude Carcassonne 4 March 1790 6,509.96 [...]
11 Aveyron Rodez 4 March 1790 8,220.71 [...]
12 Bouches-du-Rhône Marseille 4 March 1790 6,019.60 [...]
13 Calvados Caen 4 March 1790 5,704.27 [...]
14 Cantal Aurillac 4 March 1790 5,740.81 [...]
15 Charente Angoulême 4 March 1790 5,888.03 [...]
16 Charente-Inférieure Saintes 4 March 1790 7,168.14 [...]
17 Cher Bourges 4 March 1790 7,401.25 [...]
18 Corrèze Tulle 4 March 1790 5,947.17 [...]
19 Golo Bastia 11 August 1793 4,666 Cut from Corse department
20 Côte-d'Or Dijon 4 March 1790 8,769.56 [...]
21 Côtes-du-Nord Saint-Brieuc 4 March 1790 7,367.20 [...]
22 Creuse Guéret 4 March 1790 5,794.55 [...]
23 Dordogne Périgueux 4 March 1790 8,982.74 [...]
24 Doubs Besançon 4 March 1790 5,309.93 [...]
25 Drôme Valence 4 March 1790 6,759.15 [...]
26 Eure Évreux 4 March 1790 6,632.83 [...]
27 Eure-et-Loir Chartres 4 March 1790 6,079.15 [...]
28 Finistère Quimper 4 March 1790 6,933.84 [...]
29 Gard Nîmes 4 March 1790 5,997.23 [...]
30 Haute-Garonne Toulouse 4 March 1790 6,425.33 [...]
31 Gers Auch 4 March 1790 6,519.08 [...]
332 Gironde Bordeaux 4 March 1790 1,0325.52 [...]
33 Hérault Montpellier 4 March 1790 6,309.35 [...]
34 Ille-et-Vilaine Rennes 4 March 1790 6,819.77 [...]
35 Indre Châteauroux 4 March 1790 6,877.60 [...]
36 Indre-et-Loire Tours 4 March 1790 6,230.76 [...]
37 Isère Grenoble 4 March 1790 8,412.30 [...]
38 Jura Lons-le-Saunier 4 March 1790 5,033.64 [...]
39 Landes Mont-de-Marsan 4 March 1790 9,005.34 [...]
40 Loir-et-Cher Blois 4 March 1790 6,021.16 [...]
41 Haute-Loire Le Puy 4 March 1790 5,028.54 [...]
42 Loire-Inférieure Nantes 4 March 1790 7,062.85 [...]
43 Loiret Orléans 4 March 1790 6,751.91 [...]
44 Lot Cahors 4 March 1790 5,311.36 [...]
45 Lot-et-Garonne Agen 4 March 1790 5,326.41 [...]
46 Lozère Mende 4 March 1790 5,095.43 [...]
47 Maine-et-Loire Angers 4 March 1790 7,188.07 [...]
48 Manche Saint-Lô 4 March 1790 6,757.13 [...]
49 Marne Châlons-sur-Marne 4 March 1790 8,202.73 [...]
50 Haute-Marne Chaumont 4 March 1790 6,331.73 [...]
51 Mayenne Laval 4 March 1790 5,188.63 [...]
52 Meurthe Nancy 4 March 1790 6,290.02 [...]
53 Meuse Bar-sur-Ornain 4 March 1790 6,044.39 [...]
54 Morbihan Vannes 4 March 1790 6,817.04 [...]
55 Moselle Metz 4 March 1790 6,308.40 [...]
56 Nièvre Nevers 4 March 1790 6,866.19 [...]
57 Nord Lille 4 March 1790 5,784.35 [...]
58 Oise Beauvais 4 March 1790 5,814.24 [...]
59 Orne Alençon 4 March 1790 6,456.76 [...]
60 Pas-de-Calais Arras 4 March 1790 6,796.88 [...]
61 Puy-de-Dôme Clermont 4 March 1790 7,943.70 [...]
62 Basses-Pyrénées Pau 4 March 1790 7,559.50 [...]
63 Hautes-Pyrénées Tarbes 4 March 1790 4,699.15 [...]
64 Pyrénées-Orientales Perpignan 4 March 1790 4,113.76 [...]
65 Bas-Rhin Strasbourg 4 March 1790 4,955.75 [...]
66 Haut-Rhin Colmar 4 March 1790 5,496.07 [...]
67 Rhône Lyon 19 November 1793 2,704.23 Resulting from the partition of Rhône-et-Loire, decided on 12 August 1793 at the headquarters of the army of the Alps, who besieged the city revolted against the Convention, and confirmed by the latter on 19 November 1793
68 Saône-et-Loire Mâcon 4 March 1790 8,576.78 [...]
69 Haute-Saône Vesoul 4 March 1790 4,569.64 [...]
70 Sarthe Le Mans 4 March 1790 6,392.76 [...]
71 Paris Paris 14 April 1898 504.78 Formerly the Department of Seine, turned into a metropolitan department with the recognition the entire department has become urbanized
72 Seine-Inférieure Rouen 4 March 1790 5,938.10 [...]
73 Seine-et-Marne Melun 4 March 1790 5,959.80 [...]
74 Seine-et-Oise Versailles 4 March 1790 5,750.42 [...]
75 Deux-Sèvres Niort 4 March 1790 5,852.73 [...]
76 Somme Amiens 4 March 1790 6,044.56 [...]
77 Tarn Albi 4 March 1790 5,768.21 [...]
78 Var Draguignan 4 March 1790 7,255.80 [...]
79 Vendée Fontenay-le-Peuple 4 March 1790 6,754.58 [...]
80 Vienne Poitiers 4 March 1790 6,890.83 [...]
81 Haute-Vienne Limoges 4 March 1790 5,700.35 [...]
82 Vosges Épinal 4 March 1790 5,879.55 [...]
83 Yonne Auxerre 4 March 1790 7,292.23 [...]
84 Mont-Blanc Chambéry 27 November 1792 6,404.27 Suppressed after the second Treaty of Paris (1815)
85 Alpes-Maritimes Nice 14 February 1793 3,222.74 [...]
86 Jemappes Mons 12 March 1793 3,766.58 [...]
87 Gênes Gênes 4 or 6 June 1805 2,376.00 Suppressed after the first Treaty of Paris (1814)
88 Loire Montbrison 19 November 1793 4,820.44 Resulting from the partition of Rhône-et-Loire, decided on 12 August 1793 at the headquarters of the army of the Alps, who besieged the city revolted against the Convention, and confirmed by the latter on 19 November 1793
89 Vaucluse Avignon 25 June 1793 2,345.60 [...]
90 Liamone Ajaccio 11 August 1793 4,014 Cut from Corse department
91 Lys Bruges 1st October 1795 3,669.11 [...]
92 Escaut Gand 1st October 1795 2,888.70 [...]
93 Deux-Nèthes Anvers 1st October 1795 2,853.81 [...]
94 Dyle Bruxelles 1st October 1795 3,428.48 [...]
95 Meuse-Inférieure Maëstricht 1st October 1795 3,786.33 [...]
96 Ourthe Liège 1st October 1795 4,357.54 [...]
97 Sambre-et-Meuse Namur 1st October 1795 4,579.22 [...]
98 Forêts Luxembourg 1st October 1795 6,910.35 [...]
99 Léman Genève 25 August 1798 2,800.00 [...]
100 Mont-Tonnerre Mayence 4 November 1797 3,599.48 Created on November 4th, 1797 by the French Directory, organized on January 23rd, 1798 (Decree of 4 Pluviôse year VI), formally incorporated into the french territory on March 9th, 1801.
101 Sarre Trèves 4 November 1797 4,935.13 [...]
102 Rhin-et-Moselle Coblence 4 November 1797 5,884.19 [...]
103 Roër Aix-la-Chapelle 4 November 1797 5,219.85 [...]
104 Simplon Sion 13 December 1803 5,000.00 formerly Swiss Canton of Valais, see this
105 Sarine et Broye Payerne 13 December 1803 Canton of Fribourg, see this
106 Oberland Thun 13 December 1803 see this
107 Tarn-et-Garonne Montauban 21 November 1808 3,716.30 Created from territories taken in the Haute-Garonne, the Lot and Lot-et-Garonne
108 Doubs Neuchâtel 22 August 1831 see this , annexed following the Second French War (1821-32)

-additionally St. Pierre and Miquelon is governed in some way

-governed by commissioner

-also there's Macapa Spatiodrome, a concession in Guyana-Cayenne just outside Macapa

-managed by an entirely different and special administrative corpus managed by French military

Largest cities


Rank City Population Metropolitan population
1 Paris 9,715,000 24,677,000
2 Aix-la-Chapelle 2,113,000 9,412,000
3 Anvers 1,523,000 3,632,000
4 Marseilles 1,223,000 5,323,000
5 Lille 1,153,000 7,263,000
6 Lyon 1,042,000 6,012,000
7 Cologne 956,000 3,413,000
8 Metz 912,000 4,113,000
9 Toulouse 875,000 2,823,000
10 Strasbourg 811,000 2,573,000
11 Sarrebruck 789,000 2,496,000
12 Bruxelles 749,000 1,912,000
13 Nantes 721,000 2,163,000
14 Nancy 713,000 2,428,000
15 Nice 706,000 2,302,000
16 Bordeaux 681,000 2,463,000
17 Armeville[1] Saint-Étienne 667,000 1,912,000
18 Geneva 643,000 1,463,000
19 Liège 611,000 1,263,000
20 Grenoble 569,000 1,123,000

Notes

-The Ruhr and the Rhine, and much of Belgium to Lille, from Lille to Brussels to Antwerp to Liège to Aachen and extending to Cologne, is one giant conurbation of sorts called L'Aigle (the Eagle) centred around Aix-la-Chappelle

-which developed bc it just has that much coal, also in OTL Aachen was the industrial center of the Ruhr till mid-19th century

-this area got bombed bad during French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), reconstructed well in its wake with modern industry

-so Rust Beltification escapes it while Paris and other cities face it

-with Paris eventually recovering but not before it loses a fair bit investment to rising conurbation

-also means centre of silicon industry after development of the crystal valve (Biodes and terodes > ^523202) is in this conurbation


-Rhine-Rhone Canal becomes more important

-and more iron transported from Rhine area, resulting in boom intensifying in Rhone Valley

-but in the end because it wasn't smashed in French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) it goes Rust Belt

-and though it does recover, Lyon especially, it is fully overshadowed now


-Paris encompasses the entire Seine department

-with Marne-Rhine Canal allowing connections from Rhine to Paris to ship coal and Iron there

-more people and more industry boosts a whole bunch of cities

-Liege and Aix-la-Chappelle are effectively 1 metro area

-Anvers benefits from rail links, getting to be main port of Ruhr-Rhine-Flanders industrial region

-Metz is no longer right at the border, booming as a result

-Saint-Étienne -> Armeville name change retained

Ethnic groups

Rhenish

-a catchall term which includes all French people of German heritage

-immigration at the height of intensity in the nineteenth century

-especially from adjacent parts of Germany

-but eventually expands due to France having all the industry

-prior to the French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5) stoking nationalism against it

-rise of universal literacy as well as nationalism has resulted in their Francization by and large

-and Flanders-Roer region attracting huge number of immigrants from across Europe

-as well as a lot of them moving to Paris and Francifying

-and tarte flambée popular and having merged with pizza in Paris

Italian

-huge numbers of Italians migrate to France

-over 19th and early 20th centuries

-especially into Marseilles but as with all French ethnic groups into Paris as well

-enormous influence on French culture

-and pizza is by modern day widely considered a French food as a direct result of that

-albeit that most of them speak French today

Polish

-Flanders-Roer region attracts a lot of them

-as well as France's reputation of a land of liberty

-that they're mostly Catholic makes their integration relatively easy

Russian

-having come after Young Russian Revolution (1902-8)

-and suppression of Little Russian nationalist movement in the region

-and then another wave coming after French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41)

-because France really really needs immigrants

-today a pretty large group in France due to sheer numbers

Jewish

-without Napoleon Jewish emancipation well behind OTL

-except in France where it's somewhat above OTL

-people fleeing Hep-Hep riots (bigger here) move to the freedom of France

-France's very very free immigration policy means a load of Jews choose to flee to France

-Rumanian Jews, Russian Jews etc.

Filipino

-during French protectorate era in Philippine Republic a fuckton of Filipinos immigrate

-and also beyond due to trade links that were generated in that time

-creates a pretty large community in its wake



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