Is this the best french département?
Is this the best french département?
Connor Moore
Julian Walker
I guess it's ok.
John Myers
No
But it can be pretty ok
Aiden Wilson
Nope, shithole
Poor as fuck, rural, Caen is full of niggers, trashy ugly women, only decent parts are the touristic places
Chase Clark
>only decent parts are the touristic places
that's something you would say about some third world countries
Robert Diaz
MENTIONNED
Ian Perez
Are girls there like this?
she cute
Charles Adams
Well many parts of Lower Normandy are maybe not 3rd world but probably Eastern-Europe tier.
Last month i went fishing with a friend near the south west part of that map, the people had early 20th century life conditions, crumbling old homes, dead villages and so on. Other more urban places are no better than a Paris suburb. Some places are Calais tier and overrun with the fugees. In others it's the gypsies. And yeah only some beach resorts are decent as well as the posh areas of Caen and even then it's fucking underwhelming for a "large" city.
lol no, she's not anywhere near trashy or fat enough
Henry Morris
That sounds a lot like some rural areas here, modernization is very slow and you can see old unmaintained houses near new ones. Life is pretty peaceful though and there are usually less immigrants than big towns.
Matthew Kelly
The best are Nizza and Savoia
Dylan Long
no
Benjamin Davis
English territory by 2030.
Chase Martinez
>around 90% of the names of french départements were named after river or mountains each of the départements has
>thus their names are boring, 11 départements share the same river name(loire) for example
Why did this happen? I researched a bit and it seems the French Revolutionaries made them up in 18-19th centuries. Was there any reason to name them such soulless way?
Lucas Hughes
memorize provinces in ancien regime thank you
Jackson Foster
Japanese prefectures are easier to remember and at least they have history of the names. I even heard that most of French people can't memorize all departments.
Anthony Mitchell
If you want my opinion i'd say neutral names based on geographical features were chosen for several reasons :
-Some names made references to nobility or religion, places were named after noble houses and such, which they didn't like
-Need to strip local identity, hence the division in more or less equally large/important places unlike on pic related, need to get rid of reasons for having the country divided too unequally, especially from a parisian centralist point of view
-Revolutionaries were actually attached to scientific method, neutrality, and tabula rasa proto-commie method, it's like the chinese cultural revolution a bit
best i could find
fr.wikipedia.org
Luke White
not sure if it's related but names of lots of cities were changed to neutral ones, for instance Saar"louis" to Saar-libre. maybe it was because natural nomenclature cuts off previous history so they can set up the new regime
t. unknower
why yes l remember all of them
Brandon Morris
I know them all, they're easy to remember because based on historical provinces and big cities and not on a 2 meters wide river
Elijah Edwards
>Some names made references to nobility or religion, places were named after noble houses and such, which they didn't like
Thanks, that sounds persuasive.
Colton Adams
how did you remember the country of la Marche?
Alexander Diaz
Because it was a marche between England and France during the hundred years war. Also it's a province in EU4 I think
Carter Anderson
this Marche
en.m.wikipedia.org
Oliver Sullivan
Yes, that's what I was talking about.
Camden Ross
>during the hundred years war
oh :o and the other Marche is still between England and France as a department
Hudson Brown
nope lol, why would it ?
Ryder Howard
Are you not confusing with the department of "La manche"? Because la manche means "the channel", referring to the English channel.
Jose Reyes
This map makes me uncomfy
Lucas Jenkins
la Marche is easy to remember because it's the blurry zone separating oïl and oc language, where both languages intermix, hence the name
Julian Flores
behold the next level: the smallest administrative division in France ("commune")
you can count, there's more than 10k of them
Parker Russell
yes l mixed them up lmao
Aaron Cox
>Why did this happen?
Look up the meaning of many historical names/provinces around the world. All those "meaningful, historical names" are just as often the names of rivers, mountains or a tribe that lived there.
this however is fucking retarded and only exists to ensure the existence of a legion of overpaid mayors and administrators.
David Hernandez
I think you have an aggressive personality and can't control your temper. Calm down.
Alexander Cruz
no, it's alsace obviously
Dominic Jackson
it's great but there are comfiest regions tbqh
Jacob Baker
Nice projection
Noah Johnson
I don't know why you're surprised really, the same thing happened in Japan and Korea with the switch to modern prefectures/provinces.
Like, you can't more soulless than Ishikawa (石川) or Nagano (長野) or Gangwon (江原). They're all incredibly generic geographical names.