List of Former Provinces of France
The list below shows the major provinces of France at the time of their dissolution during the French Revolution. Capital cities are shown in parentheses. Bold cities indicate that the city was the seat of a parlement or conseils souverains (sovereign councils), which were legislative and judicial bodies. In some cases, the legislature met in a different city than the traditional capital. Some of the provinces that were later incorporated into France during the revolution were not formally part of the Kingdom of France.
- Île-de-France (Paris)
- Berry (Bourges)
- Orléanais (Orléans)
- Normandy (Rouen)
- Languedoc (Toulouse)
- Lyonnais (Lyon)
- Dauphiné (Grenoble)
- Champagne (Troyes)
- Aunis (La Rochelle)
- Saintonge (Saintes)
- Poitou (Poitiers)
- Guyenne and Gascony (Bordeaux)
- Burgundy (Dijon)
- Picardy (Amiens)
- Anjou (Angers)
- Provence (Aix-en-Provence)
- Angoumois (Angoulême)
- Bourbonnais (Moulins)
- Marche (Guéret)
- Brittany (Rennes)
- Maine (Le Mans)
- Touraine (Tours)
- Limousin (Limoges)
- Foix (Foix)
- Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand)
- Béarn (Pau)
- Alsace (Strasbourg, cons. souv. in Colmar)
- Artois (Arras)
- Roussillon (Perpignan)
- Flanders and Hainaut (Lille parlement in Douai)
- Franche-Comté (Besançon)
- Lorraine (Nancy)
- Corsica (off map, Ajaccio, cons. souv. in Bastia)
- Nivernais (Nevers)
- Comtat Venaissin, a Papal fief (Avignon)
- Imperial Free City of Mulhouse
- Savoy, a Sardinian fief
- Nice, a Sardinian fief
- Montbéliard, a fief of Württemberg
- Trois-Évêchés (not pictured) (Metz, Toul and Verdun).
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