Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> In France,
> the country is divided into regions themselves divided into departments (though
> historically, the departments appeared quite fast after the Revolution, while
> the regions appeared only when Mitterand became president, that's to say in
> 81 :) ),
I think the departments were deliberately designed to break up the old
provincial boundaries as a matter of building a unified nation-state.
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