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A List of the Departments of France, and of the Ancient Provinces from which they have been evolved.
| Provinces and date of union with France | Départements | Chefs-Lieux |
| Ile de France, with LaBrie, etc. Always held bythe crown | Seine | Paris |
| Seine-et-Oise | Versailles | |
| Seine-et-Marne | Melun | |
| Oise | Beauvais | |
| Aisne | Laon | |
| Picardie. Louis XIV, 1667 | Somme | Amiens |
| Artois and Boulonnais. 1640 | Pas-de-Calais | Arras |
| Flandre and HainaultFrançais. Louis XIV.1667-1669 | Nord | Lille |
| Norppe Auguste, 1204 | Seine-Inférieure | Rouen |
| Eure | Evreux | |
| Calvados | Caen | |
| Orne | Alençon | |
| Manche | Saint-Lo | |
| Bretagne. François I. 1532 | Ille-et-Vilaine | Rennes |
| Côtes-du-Nord | Saint-Brieux | |
| Finisterre | Quimper | |
| Morbihan | Vannes | |
| Loire-Inférieure | Nantes | |
| Orléanais. Louis XII. 1498 | Loiret | Orleans |
| Loir-et-Cher | Blois | |
| Beauce and Pays Chartrain | Eure-et-Loire | Chartres |
| Maine. Louis XI. 1481 | Sarthe | Le Mans |
| Mayenne | Laval | |
| Anjou. Louis XI. 1481 | Maine-et-Loire | Angers |
| Touraine. Henri III. 1584 | Indre-et-Loire | Tours |
| Poitou. Charles VI. 1416 | Vendée | Bourbon-Vendée |
| Deux-Sèvres | Niort | |
| Vienne | Poitiers | |
| Berri. Philippe I. 1100 | Indre | Châteauroux |
| Cher | Bourges | |
| Marche. François I. 1531 | Creuse | Guéret |
| Limousin. Charles V. 1370 | Haute-Vienne | Limoges |
| Corrèze | Tulle | |
| Angoumois. Charles V. 1370 | Charente | Angoulême |
| Saintonge and Aunis. 1370 | Charente-Inférieure | La Rochelle |
| Guienne and Gascogne. Charles VII. 1451 | Dordogne | Périgueux |
| Gironde | Bordeaux | |
| Lot-et-Garonne | Agen | |
| Lot | Cahors | |
| Tarn-et-Garonne | Montauban | |
| Aveyron | Rodez | |
| Gers | Auch | |
| Hautes-Pyrénées | Tarbes | |
| Landes | Mont-de-Marsan | |
| Béarn and French Navarre. Louis XIII. | Basses-Pyrénées | Pau |
| Comté de Foix. Louis XIII. | Ariège | Foix |
| Roussillon. 1659 | Pyrénées-Orientales | Perpignan |
| Languedoc. John, 1361 | Haute-Garonne | Toulouse |
| Tarn | Albi | |
| Aude | Carcassonne | |
| Hérault | Montpellier | |
| Gard | Nîmes | |
| Vivarais | Ardèche | Privas |
| Gévaudan | Lozère | Mende |
| Velay | Haute-Loire | Le Puy |
| Comtat Venaissin, Orange,etc. Louis XIV. 1713 | Vaucluse | Avignon |
| Provence. Louis XI. 1481 | Bouches-du-Rhône | Marseille |
| Var | Draguignan | |
| Basses-Alpes | Digne | |
| Dauphiné. Philippe de Valois, 1343 | Isère | Grenoble |
| Drôme | Valence | |
| Hautes-Alpes | Gap | |
| Lyonnais and Beaujolais | Rhône | Lyon |
| Forez | Loire | St. Etienne |
| Auvergne. Philippe Auguste, 1210 | Puy-de-Dôme | Clermont |
| Cantal | Aurillac | |
| Bourbonnais. Louis XII. 1505 | Allier | Moulins |
| Nivernais. Charles VII. 1457 | Nièvre | Nevers |
| Bresse, Bugey, etc. | Ain | Bourg |
| Bourgogne (duché). Louis XI. 1477 | Saône-et-Loire | Mâcon |
| Côte-d'Or | Dijon | |
| Yonne | Auxerre | |
| Comté de Bourgogne, orFranche-Comté. Peaceof Nimeguen, 1678 | Doubs | Besançon |
| Jura | Lons-le-Saulnier | |
| Haute-Saône | Vesoul | |
| Champagne. Philippe le Bel, 1284 | Aube | Troyes. |
| Marne | Châlons-sur-Marne | |
| Haute-Marne | Chaumont | |
| Ardennes | Mézières | |
| Lorraine.[*] On the death of Stanislas Leczinsky, 1766 | Meurthe and Moselle | Nancy |
| Meuse | Bar-le-Duc | |
| Vosges | Epinal | |
| Alsace.[*] Louis XIV. 1648 | Territory of Belfort Belfort | |
| Haut-Rhin | Colmar | |
| Corsica. 1794. | Corse | Ajaccio |
| Comté de Nice. 1861 | Alpes Maritimes | Nice |
| Savoy | Savoie | Chambéry |
| Haute-Savoie | Annecy |
[*] The greater part of these provinces as they formerly stood were ceded to Germany, May 10, 1871.