Re: As Is (was: Re: Concurrency)

Yes...I remember talking about that in history class.  I think they also
tried to create departments of approximately the same size, as oppossed
to the old provinces, which were mainly based on ancient nations and
estates.
-M

John Cowan wrote:
>
> 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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