User:Coldstreamer20/Provinces of France and their successor department

Background
National Constituent Assembly adopted a more uniform division into departments (départements) and districts in late 1789. The provinces continued to exist administratively until 21 September 1791.

The provinces of France were roughly equivalent to the historic counties of England. They came into their final form over the course of many hundreds of years, as many dozens of semi-independent fiefs and former independent countries came to be incorporated into the French royal domain. Because of the manner in which the provinces evolved, each had its own sets of feudal traditions, laws, taxation systems and courts; the system represented an impediment to effective administration of the entire country from Paris. During the early years of the French Revolution, in an attempt to centralise the administration of the whole country and to remove the influence of the French nobility over the country, the entirety of the province system was abolished and replaced by the system of departments in use today.

In some cases, several modern regions or departments share names with the historic provinces; their borders may cover roughly the same territory.

List of Provinces and their successor departments
Below is a list of the provinces (really Military Districts (Governments)) of France before the revolution. These "provinces' were called governments (gouvernements) and administered by a Military Governor appointed by the King to oversee military matters. For administrative purposes, these provinces correlated directly to the old duchies, counties, provinces, and regions, thus making them the continuation of the former.  The old regions had two options (three in reality): Union into the Kingdom (ie: becoming part of the Kingdom as a province), Union of their title into the Royal Domain (ie: keeping their old name and becoming an integral part of the Kingdom, examples would be the Duchy (Dukes) of Anjou or Count (County) of Artois), and the third being a "dependency", or another words unofficially an independent state which relies on the Kingdom of France for all needs.

The below list will include all former governments with their location within the 1789 boundaries of France, any sub-regions, their date of establishment (ie: the year the region was incorporated into the Kingdom), the Governmental Seat (Capital), any relevant information, successor departments, and those communes which were part of the province but did not form part of a full department. Each government also included a "Class (1st or 2nd)", the 1st class being those major regions where the governor was allocated 60,000 livres, or the 2nd class being the minor regions where the governor was allocated 30,000 livres.