A Territorial collectivity (French: collectivité territoriale, previously collectivité locale) within the French Republic is the generic name for all country subdivisions that have an elected local government and (per article #72 of the French constitution) a certain freedom of administration.
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“All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth—including America, of course—consist of pilferings from other people’s wash.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)