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The Creation of Departments and the Territorial Reorganization

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2020, (42), pp.121~166
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2020.02.42.121
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : January 22, 2020
  • Accepted : February 13, 2020
  • Published : February 28, 2020

Park Youn Duk 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The administrative system of the Old regime was very complicated. The provinces kept their privileges and particular customs. The different circumscriptions of various spheres were overlapped without consistency. The officers and royal agents were in conflict for their functions and competence. Before the Revolution, the elites imbued with the Enlightenment expected to divide the existing circumscriptions in the suitable size in order to come close the administration to inhabitants and to prevent the danger of the federalism. The cahiers de doléances of 1789 demanded the establishment of provincial assembly and the territorial reorganization. The Constituent Assembly created the 83 departments for the system of the representation. The inhabitants of departments, counties, cantons and municipalities elect their councilors and deputies who form the city council and general assemblies. Under this unified system of the administration, the new regime established by the Revolution integrated the different french provinces into a single entity of France.

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