France’s Department Name Changes

— During the French Revolution to present day France

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French DepartmentsThen	French Departments Now
Côtes-du-Nord	Côtes d’Armor
Charente- Inférieure	Charente-Maritime
Loire-Inférieure	Loire-Atlantique
Seine- Inférieure	Seine-Maritime
Seine	divided into Paris, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Vol-de-Marne
Mont Blanc	ceased to exist after Napoleon’s loss at Waterloo
Mayenne et Loire	Maine et Loire
Meurthe	Meurthe-et-Moselle
Sambre et Meuse	provinces of Namur & Luxembourg, Belgium
Mont-Terrible	annexed to Haute Rhin
Basses-Pyrénées	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
l’Ourthe	part of Belgium and Germany
Seine-et-Oise	Yvelines