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	French provinces in France ( France regions)
		France is the largest nation in Western Europe with a population in excess of 60,000,000, over a third of who are internet users.
		France borders Andorra 56.6 km, Belgium 620 km, Germany 451 km, Italy 488 km, Luxembourg 73 km, Monaco 4.4 km, Spain 623 km, and Switzerland 573 km.
		The economy of France is fairly widespread and covers diverse activities such as machinery, chemicals, automobiles, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics; textiles, food processing; and of course tourism.
	www.enjoyfrance.com /french-provinces.php (196 words)

	France - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The basin is surrounded by the provinces of Champagne and Lorraine in the east; Artois, Picardy, French Flanders (see Nord dept.), and Normandy in the northeast and north; Brittany, Maine, and Anjou in the west; and Touraine, Orléanais, Nivernais, and Burgundy in the south.
		In 1328, Philip VI (1328-50), of the house of Valois, a younger branch of the Capetians, succeeded to the throne.
		France was beset by a host of problems in 1995, including severe floods and terror bombings; the government faced international criticism for its nuclear testing in the South Pacific, which it resumed after a three-year moratorium; and the country was paralyzed late in the year by a long transportation workers strike.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-france.html (6518 words)

	Welcome to the French Provinces @ DF.net !
		The difficulties encountered by the iron and steel industry, and the coal mines on which the wealth of Lorraine was built, have brought about economic problems and the region is now engaged in a far-reaching program of industrial reconversion and diversification of activities in Metz, the regional capital and in Nancy, the university centre.
		Toulouse is the main centre of France´s aerospace industry (the Airbus is assembled there) and the second in importance for advanced technological activities in France (research, data-processing, computers, robotics).
		This was France´s major industrial region in the 19th century (thanks to the coal and textile industries) and the most heavily populated.
	www.discoverfrance.net /France/Provinces/prov_intro2.shtml (1712 words)

	miraque53: France
		The 22 régions and 96 départements of metropolitan France.
		France is divided into 26 administrative régions: 22 are in metropolitan France (21 are on the continental part of metropolitan France; one is the "territorial collectivity" of Corse, on the island of Corsica, commonly referred to as a région in common speech), and four are overseas régions.
		In 2003, France's natural population growth (excluding immigration) was responsible for almost all the natural growth in European population: the population of the European Union increased by 216,000 inhabitants (without immigration), of which 211,000 was the increase in France's population alone, and 5,000 was the increase in all the other countries of the EU combined.
	miraque53.blogspot.com /2006/07/france.html (7219 words)

	France. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The heart of France N of the Loire River is the province of Île-de-France, which occupies the greater part of the Paris basin, a fertile depression drained by the Seine and Marne rivers.
		In 1328, Philip VI (1328–50), of the house of Valois, a younger branch of the Capetians, succeeded to the throne.
		The French defeats at Crécy (1346) and Poitiers (1356), the epidemic of the Black Death, the Parisian insurrection under Étienne Marcel (1357–58), the Jacquerie (peasant revolt) of 1358, and the pillaging bands of écorcheurs plunged France into anarchy and forced John II (1350–64) to accept the humiliating Treaty of Brétigny (1360).
	www.bartleby.com /65/fr/France.html (6467 words)

	AllRefer.com - France : Land, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		The heart of France N of the Loire River is the province of Ile-de-France, which occupies the greater part of the Paris basin, a fertile depression drained by the Seine and Marne rivers.
		The basin is surrounded by the provinces of Champagne and Lorraine in the east; Artois, Picardy, French Flanders (see Nord dept.), and Normandy in the northeast and north; Brittany, Maine, and Anjou in the west; and Touraine, OrlEanais, Nivernais, and Burgundy in the south.
		The southwestern part of France comprises the small Pyrenean provinces of Roussillon, Foix, BEarn, and French Navarre and the vast provinces of Gascony and Guienne.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/France-land.html (537 words)

	France - IBWiki
		France is a democracy organised as vertically centralised semi-presidential republic.
		Les Provinces, while "eradicated" by the revolution were re-instated under Napoleon, and act as a middle level division to the national communautés.
		France's geography varies between the high mountains of the Alps to the East and the volcanic Massif Central, to the rolling hills of the Côte d'Or, and the alluvial flood plains of the Garonne, the Seine and the Loire.
	ib.frath.net /w/France (1312 words)

	France: Traditional provinces - Historical perspective
		When Hugues Capet was crowned, the title of Duke of France disappeared, but the Count of Normandy and the Count of Rennes took the title of Duke of Normandy and Duke of Brittany, respectively.
		That division is sometimes considered as the source of the antagonism between France and Germany, at least in France, since the treaty was imposed by Louis to Lothaire.
		The status of these flags is therefore weird: inhabitants of the provinces have promoted flags derived from ancient arms, which had been suppressed during the French Revolution, and have completely changed their meaning.
	flagspot.net /flags/fr-prov.html (1987 words)

	Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For instance, a province is a local unit of government in Belgium, Spain and Italy, and a large constituent autonomous area in Canada, Congo and Argentina.
		In Peru, provinces are a tertiary unit of government, as the country is divided into twenty-five regions, which are then subdivided into 194 provinces.
		The provinces of the Ottoman Empire had various types of governors (generally a pasha), but mostly styled vali, hence the predominant term vilayet, generally subdivided (often in beyliks or sanjaks), sometimes grouped under a governor-general (styled beylerbey).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinces (1317 words)

	Les Provinces de France
		France is traditionally divided into roughly 22 ancient provinces, although modern government, mail delivery, and auto registrations are now based on 95 departmental regions.
		Population of France is 58 million (10 million in the Paris region).
		France's 36,673 towns and villages are linked by 964,356 km (599,240 miles) of roads and 31,940 km (19,847 miles) of railways.
	www.watertown.k12.ma.us /whs/library/french/provinces.html (382 words)

	Auvergne, France
		Auvergne, one of the historic provinces of France and since 1960 an administrative region, lies in central France, extending over much of the Massif Central, and takes in four départements (Allier, Cantal, Haute-Loire and Puy-de-Dôme).
		From the early 11th century it was a county owing allegiance to France, and the Counts of Auvergne were at times also Margraves of Septimania and Dukes of Aquitaine.
		The object of this park and of the recently (1984) established Parc Naturel Régional Livradois-Forez is to ensure that the native flora and fauna are not endangered by the increasing numbers of visitors in both summer and winter.
	www.planetware.com /france/auvergne-f-auv-auv.htm (533 words)

	Aquitaine: A Brief History - France.com
		The caves of Lascaux, in France, contain some of the earliest known representational art, dating to between 17,000 and 15,000 years before the present.
		As with most of France, the region was then kept under a succession of feudal regimes, but was the last of the great feudal duchies be assimilated into the Kingdom of France.
		However, fate was to play a particular game with Eleonor, Aquitaine, France and Britain. After her marriage to the French King Louis VI was annuled on grounds of consanguinity, Eleonor was quick to marry again. 2 weeks after her marriage, her second husband, Henry Plantagenet, became King of England and was crowned as Henry II.
	www.france.com /docs/66.html (572 words)

	Heraldry of French Regions
		In the High Middle Ages, the king of France was the nominal liege of a large number of feudal lords who enjoyed great independence.
		The Revolution of 1789 and Napoleon's Empire created modern France's administrative structures: townships (communes) which are the lowest level of government with elected mayors, cantons and arrondissements which are mainly electoral districts, and départements administered by appointed officials.
		Bourgogne: quarterly bendy of 6 or and azure a bordure gules, and France ancient a bordure gobony argent and gules.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/france/frregions.htm (626 words)

	Tour de France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		When it is time for the committee to hear proposals, a large map of France is taped to the board so the students may identify their city and province as they make their oral presentation in French.
		Students are provided a copy of the map of France with the provinces outlined, one per team.
		At the conclusion of the Tour des provinces race, the students should be very familiar with the provinces of France.
	www.sedl.org /loteced/scenarios/french_tourdefrance.html (1634 words)

	France: Land
		The heart of France N of the Loire River is the province of Île-de-France, which occupies the greater part of the Paris basin, a fertile depression drained by the Seine and Marne rivers.
		The basin is surrounded by the provinces of
		The central section of the west coast, between the Gironde estuary and the Loire, is occupied by the provinces of
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0858210.html (294 words)

	Provinces of France to 1791
		The provinces were military gouvernements (governments), mostly established in the 14th century.
		By the law of 18 Mar 1776 their number was fixed at 39 of which 32 were grands grouvernements (greater governments) and 7 were lesser ones or petits grouvernements enclaved into the greater ones.
		1552 France annexes the Bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /France_prov.html (3764 words)

	Midi-Pyrenees: Introduction - France.com
		One is the agricultural countryside with magnificent landscapes, picturesque towns and some the most beautiful villages in France.
		The volcanic massif of Aubrac is home to a breed of cattle highly regarded for the quality of its beef, and the plateaus of Causses support sheep-farming, the source of milk for cheese-makers and of hides that are processed into gloves in Millau, leather capital of France.
		Sometimes referred as to “foie gras country”, it is one of the most charming provinces of France.
	www.france.com /docs/121.html (767 words)

	Provinces de France
		Provinces de France French styles To contact us Guestbook INVENTORY Armoires and Cabinets Desks Tables Chairs Chest Drawers Side-tables Sideboards Curio/Bookcases Beds Paintings...
		PROVINCES de FRANCE: Importer, in San Antonio, Texas, of French Antiques (Furniture, Fireplaces, Fountains, Tiles...
		Each unique antique is hand-selected, by the owners, primarily from the southern regions of France.
	www.provincesdefrance.net /index.html (161 words)

	France: Traditional provinces - Heraldic and vexillological perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Each page includes links towards the Region(s) and department(s) whose territory(ies) overlap(s) the former provincial territory, the history of the province and the explanation of its banner of arms, if known.
		All the provinces listed above are included in the series.
		I guess the pays have been selected to reach the number of 50, but other could have been added (for instance, Maurienne was selected in Savoy but not Chablais, Faucigny, Genevois and Tarentaise).
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/fr-provf.html (599 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- France - AOL Research & Learn
		Turgot's reforms, instituted early in the reign of Louis XVI (1774–92), were cut short in 1776, when he was dismissed.
		Marshal Pétain became head of the Vichy government (see under Vichy) of unoccupied France (other Vichy leaders were Laval and Darlan), which became a German tool, while Gen. Charles de Gaulle proclaimed, from London, the continued resistance of the Free French.
		The Allied invasion (Nov., 1942) of North Africa resulted (1943) in the establishment of a provisional Free French government at Algiers and in the complete German occupation of metropolitan France.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/france/20051206015609990002 (6453 words)

	France: Traditional provinces
		Progressively, those feudal states were merged into larger ones, which were eventually incorporated to the Kingdom of France as gouvernements, or military provinces.
		The apanage system was set up to avoid dividing the kingdom between the crown princes, as it had occurred in 843 (treaty of Verdun) when Robert the Pious' Empire was divided between his sons Lothaire and Louis the Germanic.
		I prefer to use 'traditional provinces' than 'historical provinces', since Corsica, Savoy and Nice were never military governments of the French kingdom.
	www.hampshireflag.co.uk /world-flags/allflags/fr-prov.html (2418 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/France
		power of the king was hedged in by a stupendous multitude of dusty charters and special privileges—often granted to remove the recipients from national politics—held by families, guilds, monopolies, communes, and provinces, and by the clergy and nobles.
		Marshal Pétain became head of the Vichy government (see under Vichy) of unoccupied France (other Vichy leaders were Laval and Darlan), which became a German tool, while Gen. Charles de Gaulle proclaimed, from London, the continued resistance of the
		In 1966, de Gaulle withdrew French forces from the integrated command of NATO and forced all U.S. and NATO forces to leave France, although he proclaimed adherence in the event of an
	www.reference.com /browse/columbia/France (6674 words)

	H-France Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		For example, in comparing the United Provinces to France, he astutely notes the differences and observes that the Dutch often prefer money to glory and the French glory to money (p.
		In his wide ranging letters he discusses the architectural wonders in the United Provinces, the flora and fauna of the area, Dutch cheese, paintings, herbal remedies, the beauty of new coins, and so on.
		The editors have relied exclusively on archival materials in France and have not consulted the voluminous material in The Hague and London.
	www.h-france.net /reviews/frey.html (968 words)

	New Caledonia (France): Provinces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		According to the Organic and Ordinary Laws of 16 February 1999, New Caledonia is divided in three provinces administrated by Provincial Assemblies, whose reunion forms the Congress:
		The municipality of Poya is split between the North and South provinces, following a decision of the State Council.
		The website of the South Province shows a picture of the building of the provincial administration, surmonted with two flags, the French tricolore and a white flag with a charge which is undoubtly the triangular logotype of the province.
	flagspot.net /flags/nc-prov.html (252 words)

	H-France Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		The first treatise was drafted by a number of individuals involved with the English embassy in France, including Robert Cecil, the son of Elizabeth’s Lord Treasurer.
		Appendix 2 reprints some documents compiled by Robert Cecil: the titled nobility and office-holders of France and “the Alliances of the French Nobility.” Appendix 3 includes documents collected by Richard Cook, which have not been previously printed.
		The power networks of France are illuminated by biographical sketches of the leading ministers of France, a discussion of the origins of the wars of religion, and a survey of France province by province.
	www.h-france.net /reviews/frey2.html (559 words)

	France Vacations - Hotels France - France Hotels
		France Vacations - Hotels France - France Hotels
		In Nice, France, the Hotel Negresco is within walking distance of major museums and the shopping district.
		The Hotel Splendid Nice is a modern, boutique property located in the centre of Nice, within 400 metres of the seafront and historic Old..
	www.francehotelfinder.com (567 words)

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