Description: A map of France at the time of the Constitution of 1791, including an inset of the Corsican department. ÒFor the purpose of administration and local government a new system was established. The old thirty-two provinces were abolished and France was divided into eighty-three departments of nearly uniform size. The departments were divided into arrondissements, these into cantons, and these into municipalities or communes. These are the terms which have ever since been in vogue. — Hazen, 1917
Source: Charles Downer Hazen, The French Revolution and Napoleon (New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1917) 140
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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