{"id":109559,"date":"2017-12-09T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:24","slug":"france-reorganised-into-83-departements-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/france-reorganised-into-83-departements-3\/","title":{"rendered":"France reorganised into 83 d\u00e9partements, 1790"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/Sa1nlAykWdI\/AAAAAAAABXM\/2gs-YcobEns\/s1600-h\/france_departments_1790.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"154\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309013421304601042\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/france_departments_1790.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109560\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 154px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;\" \/><\/a>Prior  to the revolution, the administration of France involved a confused  overlapping patchwork of local authorities. In order to rationalise the  administration of the country and to reduce regional loyalties based on  aristocratic ownership of the land, in September 1789 Jacques-Guillaume  Thouret presented a report by the Constitution Committee to the  Constituent Assembly that proposed the division of France into smaller  administrative regions.  Three months later the Assembly adopted a plan  to create 83 roughly rectangular <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">d\u00e9partements<\/span> of similar size, each named after geographical and other natural features.<\/p>\n<p>On 4th March 1790 the new administrative structure came into effect. The electorate of each <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">d\u00e9partement<\/span> would vote for 36 council members and a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">procureur-g\u00e9n\u00e9ral-syndic<\/span>,  a legal officer, each serving for two years with half the council  facing re-election each year. The council elected eight of their number  to to deal with all aspects of local administration.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to the revolution, the administration of France involved a confused overlapping patchwork of local authorities. In order to rationalise the administration of the country and to reduce regional loyalties based on aristocratic ownership of the land, in September 1789 Jacques-Guillaume Thouret presented a report by the Constitution Committee to the Constituent Assembly that proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}