| DescriptionProvinces of France (numered).svg | Español: Francia en 1789 English: Map of administrative divisions of France in 1789 Provinces as follows, in the format English name (French name, Year of union; Capital): - Royal Domain (Île-de-France,987,Paris)
- Berry (Berry,1101,Bourges)
- Duchy of Orléanais (Orléanais,1198,Orléans)
- Normandy (Normandie,1204,Rouen)
- Languedoc, mainly the County of Toulouse (Languedoc,1270,Toulouse)
- Lyonnais (Lyonnais,1313,Lyon)
- Dauphiné, (Dauphiné,1349,Grenoble)
- County of Champagne (Champagne,1361,Troyes)
- Aunis, a fief ofAquitaine (Aunis,1371,La Rochelle)
- Saintonge (Saintonge,1371,Saintes)
- Poitou (Poitou,1416,Poitiers)
- Duchy of Aquitaine (Aquitaine,1453,Bordeaux), taken fromEngland and split into provinces ofGascogne (Armagnac) andGuyenne (Bordeaux), but excluding the viscounties of Foix, Béarn,Bigorre andPérigord (kept byNavarre)
- Duchy of Burgundy (Bourgogne,1477,Dijon)
- Picardy (Picardie,1482,Amiens)
- Anjou (Anjou,1482,Angers)
- County of Provence (Provence,1482,Aix-en-Provence)
- County of Angoulême (Angoumois,1515,Angoulême)
- Duchy of Bourbon (Bourbonnais,1527,Moulins)
- La Marche (Marche,1527,Guéret)
- Duchy of Britanny (Bretagne,1532,Rennes)
- County of Maine (Maine,1584,Le Mans) andCounty of Perche (Perche,1525,Nogent-le-Rotrou)
- Touraine (Touraine,1584,Tours)
- Limousin (Limousin,1589,Limoges), excludingViscounty of Périgord (kept byNavarre)
- County of Foix (Comté de Foix,1607,Foix) andViscounty of Périgord (Périgord, 1607,Périgueux, attached to province of Guyenne), both former fiefs from Navarre
- Duchy of Auvergne (Auvergne,1610,Clermont-Ferrand)
- Viscounty of Béarn (Béarn,1620,Pau)
- Alsace (Alsace,1648,Strasbourg)
- County of Artois, a fief of thew:Habsburgs'Spanish Netherlands (Artois,1659,Arras)
- Roussillon (Roussillon,1659,Perpignan)
- Flanders, a fief of thew:Habsburgs'Spanish Netherlands (Flandre,1668,Lille)
- Free County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté,1678,Besançon)
- Duchy of Lorraine, a personal territory ofStanisław I of Poland within theHoly Roman Empire (Lorraine,1766,Nancy)
- Corsica (Corse,1768,Ajaccio)
The following were not provinces of France before the Revolution, but joined or were annexed to France after it, when departments had replaced all former provinces: - Duchy of Nivernais (Nivernais,1789,Nevers)
- Comtat Venaissin, aPapal fief (Comtat Venaissain,1791,Avignon)
- County of Saarwerden (Comté de Sarrewerden,1793)
- Principality of Salm-Salm (Principauté de Salm-Salm,1793)
- Imperial Free City ofMulhouse (Mulhouse,1798)
- Principality of Montbéliard (Principauté de Montbéliard,1816,Montbéliard)
- Duchy of Savoy, a state of theKingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (Savoie,1860,Chambéry)
- County of Nice, a state of theKingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont (Comté de Nice,1860,Nice)
- Free cities of Menton and Roquebrune (1861), joining France after the separation (under the protectorate ofSardinia) in1848 fromMonaco
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