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Territorial Departments Replace Provinces

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Territorial Departments Replace Provinces

Sieyes, Emmanuel Joseph · Paris · Deputy and constitutional theorist

The Assembly adopted a new map of departments, translating the administrative uniformity favored by Sieyes into the operating geography of revolutionary France.

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