FRANCE, 
la Marche, Le Bourbonnois, Saintonge et Angoumois, 
_ Limofin, Auvergne, Lyonnois, -Dauphiné, Guienne et 
Gafcogne, Béarn, Comte de Foix, Ronffillon, Languedoc, 
Befides thefe thirty-two governments; 
Picardy $ the avre de Grace 
Anjou, ee and Poitou 
c Ve rdunois $ Toul ne T Sie 
wn by the name of 
the three bifhoprics ; ek lat y Sedan, ‘between Lorraine 
— Champagne in the n 
In financial and mae ae. France was: divided into 
_ twenty generalties for the Pays @’ Election, and five gs the 
Pays d’ Etat, and eight intendancies, making inall thi iree 
rae cial and civil departments, with only eee Cae 
ants, becaufe there was only one intendant for the two gene- 
ralties of Langue 
The ecclefiaftical divifions of France, at the fame period, 
e, and which counted three 
There were alto fix bifhops fuffragans of two 
strafburg fuffragan. of Mentz 
etz; Toul, Verdun, Nancy, and Saint 
of 'Treves. The number of parifhes. in 
France at that time was 40,000. There were 800 convents 
of monks, 281 nunneries, and 679 chapt 
The decree of the national afiembly ve the tath of July 
1790, reduced the archbifhoprics to 10, and the bifhop- 
the concordat con- 
governme 
cal divifioa was se ted by t 
1802, which eftablithed 10 Per ee 51 bifhops, viz 
1. The archbifhop of Pari is, who has a him the biflio 
Me urg, Nancy, 40 a 
of Lyons, eis fan che Bikes of Me nde, 
Greeny Valence, and Chambéry. 5. The archbifhop of 
Aix, who has under him the bifhops of Nice, Avignon, 
Ajaccio, Digne, and Vintimille in the principality of Piom- 
bino annexed to France. he archbithop of Touloufe, 
who fuperintends the bifhoprics of Cahors, ier ea ae 
Carcaffonne, Agen, and Bayonne bi hep 
Bourdeaux, who ha of Poitiers 
Rochelle, and Angoulém carchbifhop of Bourges 
ey {uperintends the bithoprics of ‘Cle ermont, Saint Flo 
archbifhop of Tours, who } 
Eo 
Rennes, Vannes, Saint Brieux, atid Qui 
archbifhop of Rouen, who fuperintends the bifhoprics of 
Coutanccs, “Bayeux, Séez, and Evreux. To thefe muft be 
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pepe onl adembly of France, by its decrees of 
e1 ae of January, and 16th and 26th of February 1790, 
oe ded France into 83 departments, fubdivided into 5.44 
L. KV. 
_tended to 1 
ius 
he law 2 ‘the eighth of pie 95, Lower 
and 
diftricts. 
increafed its territory, the number o 
62, by a law of the, year 18co, and that of 
‘a riéts reduced to 417; when a prefe&t was placed at the 
the civil co ‘tration of each aepaenent ae 
But the conquefts of France —— confiderably 
s was eX- 
t 
. | fabepeet eftablifhed for every diftri 
n 1807 the number of d departments, owing to the an- 
nexation of the e Ligurian or Genoefe repu ublic and other 
territories, was 110, wz. 1, Lower Alps; 2 , Mouth of thé 
Rhéne; 3, Var; 4, Vauclufe; 5, Upper Alps; 6; uae 
4, Tfere; 8, Doubs; 9, Jura; 10, Upper Sadne; 11, Low 
Rhine; 12, Upper Rhine; eee curthes ae ake a Mo. 
- 3 16, Volies ; 17, Arde snnes; 18, ; 19, Marne ; 
ae Marne; 21, North; 22, Pas ‘de Calls 23» Aine: 
So 
, 3 332 Lo 1€3 345 Cot 
Tae : "36, Ile and Vilaine ; 37, ee er Loire; 38, Mor- 
7 ; 39s Indre and Loire; 40,Mayenne; 41, Mayenne 
and Loire; 42, Sarthe; 43, Two Sevres; 44, Vendée; 
45, Vienne; 46, Eure and Loire; 47, Loire and Cher ; ; 
; 6 
Charente; 64, Dor- 
ot and ane ; 
68, Gers; 69, Lot; 70, Aveyron 5 aXy - ower Pyrene 
72, Upper Pyrenees ; rk 3, Airiége; 74, Eaftern Poe ; 
75, Ardéche; 76, Aude; 77, Gard; 78, Upper Garonne; 
79) Herault; 80, Lozére; 81, Tarn; 82, Cantal; 83, Up- 
per Loire; 84, Puy de Déme; 85, G 6, ‘Liamone 5. 
; 88, Maritime Alps y Leman; go, Dyle; 
91, Efcaut (Scheldt); 92, Foréts; 93, Jem mappe; 94, Lys; 
rMeufe; 96, Two Net hes; 97» Ourthe; 98, Sam 
bre and Meufe; 99, Roérs; 100, Sarres roi, Rhi ne and 
Mofelle; 102, Mont Tonnerre; 103, The Apennines 3 
104, oo 105; Genoa; 106, Marengo; 107, Montenctte 5 
108, Po; 109, Sefia; 110, Stura. To which mutt 
e 
added for Parma and Plaifance, cape: the papal domi- 
ut of different cantons 
of Aveyro oie r Garonne, 
ot and Garonne by the fenatua confultum of the. 
2d of November 1808, the departments of, 111, Tarn and. 
Garonne 3 Taro; 113, Arno; 114; Mediterrancan ; 
115, Ombrone 116, Rome; and, 117, ‘Trafimene. 
The military divifions of France are twenty-nine, each 
of yee is i 
trafbur ge 
14, Caen; 15, Rouen; 16, Lille; 17, Dijon 18, te 
A Sg 20, Bourges; 21, 7 3 Battia ; 
23, Bruifels; 24, Liege; 25 elas 26, ‘Turin; 
273 Genoa ; 28, Florence 5 29, Rome. 
natural eee of a large extent 
g an extenfivefea-coait on three different 
of country, en} ioyin 
feas, of a highly ene! and commercial i of limits - 
fixed by the boldekt catures of nature, thre Bepest of high 
mountains, three es, = alarge river Paxe) moft favour- 
e sesioy the advanta, 
Rhine, t 
1, the lake 
now called lac Leman, about’ twenty-nine leagues, long and 
four leagues broad in its greateit breadth; 2, the lake of 
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