rly to Orleans, is a species difficult to place--it partakes largely
of southern influence, but is usually thought to merit a nomenclature of
its own, as distinct from the type found at Anjou. Turning now to the
northern or Frankish influence, as distinct from the Romance countries;
Brittany joins to no slight degree influences of each region; Normandy
partakes largely of the characteristics of the type of Central France,
which is thoroughly dominated by that indigenous to the Isle of France,
which species properly might include the Bourbonnais and Nivernoise
variants, as being something of a distinct type, though resembling, in
occasional details, southern features. This list, with the addition of
French Flanders, with its Lowland types, completes the arrangement, if
we except Alsace and Lorraine, which favour the German manner of
building rather more than any of the native French types.

II

_A List of the Departments of France, and of the Ancient Provinces from
which they have been evolved._

_Provinces and date of _Departements_ _Chefs-Lieux_
union with France_

Ile de France, with La Seine Paris
Brie, etc. Always held Seine-et-Oise Versailles
by the Crown Seine-et-Marne Melun
Oise Beauvais
Aisne Laon

Picardie. Louis XIV, 1667 Somme Amiens

Artois and Boulonnais. Pas-de-Calais Arras
1640

Flandre and Hainault Nord Lille
Francais. Louis XIV.
1667-1669

Normandie. Philippe Seine-Inferieure Rouen
Auguste, 1204 Eure Evreux
Calvados Caen
Orne Alencon
Manche Saint-Lo

Bretagne. Francois I. Ille-et-Vilaine Rennes
1532 Cotes-du-Nord Saint-Brieux
Finisterre Quimper
Morbihan Vannes
Loire-Inferieure Nantes

Orleanais. Louis XII. Loiret Orleans
1498 Loir-et-Cher Blois

Beauce and Pays Chartrain Eure-et-Loire Chartres

Maine. Louis XI. 1481 Sarthe