| Gévaudan | In the Cevennes, a region of forests and mountains |
| Velay | A region of plateaux with visible lava tracks |
| Lyonnais-Beaujolais | The mountain ranges which rise to the westward of Lyons |
| Morvan | An isolated group of porphyrous and granite elevations |
| Haute-Auvergne | The mountain range of Cantal |
| Basse-Auvergne | The mountain chains of Mont Dore and des Dômes |
| Limousin | A land of plateaux, ravines, and granite |
| Agenais | Rocky and mountainous, but with its valleys among the richest in all France |
| Haut-Quercy | A rolling plain, but with little fertility |
| Bas-Quercy | The plains of the Garonne, the Tarn, and the Avéyron |
| Armagnac | An extensive range of petites montagnes running in various directions |
| Landes | A desert of sand, forests, and inlets of the sea |
| Béarn | A country furrowed by the ramifications of the range of the Pyrenees |
| Basse-Navarre | A Basque country situated on the northern slope of the Pyrenees |
| Bigorre | The plain of Tortes and its neighbouring valleys |
| Savoie | A region comprising a great number of
valleys made by the ramifying ranges of
the Alps. The principal valleys being
those of Faucigny, the Tarentaise, and the Maurienne |
| Bourbonnais | A country of hills and valleys which, as to general
limits, corresponds with the Department of the Allier |
| Nivernais | An undulating region between the Loire and the Morvan |
| Berry | A fertile plain, slightly elevated, to the northward of Limousin |
| Sologne | An arid plain separated by the valleys of the Cher and the Indre |
| Gatinais | A barren country northeast of Sologne |
| Saintonge | Slightly mountainous and covered with vineyards—also
in parts partaking of the
characteristics of the Landes |
| Angoumois | A hilly country covered with a growth of vines |
| Périgord | An ensemble of diverse regions, often hilly,
but covered with a luxuriant forest growth |
| Bordelais | (Comprising Blayais, Fronsadais, Libournais,
Entre-deux-mers, Médoc, and Bazadais.)
The vine-lands of the Garonne, La Gironde,
and La Dordogne |
| Dauphiné | Another land of mountains and valleys. It
is crossed by numbers of ranges and distinct
peaks. The principal subdivisions
are Viennois, Royonnais Vercors, Trièves,
Dévoluy, Oisons, Graisivaudan, Chartreuse,
Queyras Valgodemar, Champsaur. |
| Provence | A region of fertile plains dominated by volcanic
rocks and mountains. It contains
also the great pebbly plain in the extreme
southwest known as the Crau |
| Camargue | The region of the Rhône delta |
| Languedoc | Properly the belt of plains situated between
the foot of the Cevennes and the borders
of the Mediterranean |
| Rousillon | The region between the peaks of the Corbière
and the Albère mountain chain. The
population was originally pure Catalan |
| Lauragais | A stony plateau with red earth deposited
in former times by the glaciers of the Pyrenees |
| Albigeois | A rolling and fertile country |
| Toulousain | A plain well watered by the Garonne and the Ariège |
| Comminges | The lofty Pyrenean valleys of the Garonne basin |
