45 boroughs (arrondissements) within 8 of these local municipalities 89 regional county municipalities or RCMs (municipalités régionales de comté, MRC)...

Chaumont, New York and the borough of LeRaysville, Pennsylvania are named after him. In the end, the political ideals that Le Ray de Chaumont cherished came...

the comte de Provence, of succeeding his brother Louis XVI. His private household was created upon his birth. He was under the care of Victoire de Rohan...

into five regional county municipalities (French: municipalité régionale de comté, or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by...

other purposes in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French comté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount...

(via Gigonnet). Rastignac is easily persuaded to reveal the plot when the Comte de Vandenesse promises to support Rastignac's claim to the peerage. On the...

defence in the Siege of Paris (885–886), for which the then Count of Paris (comte de Paris), Odo of France, was elected king of West Francia. From the Capetian...

known during the Revolution, Bourg-l'Égalité, "Equality Borough" rather than "Queen's Borough") where, after another two days, he was found dead in his...

incorporated as a municipal borough, then later became a county borough in 1887. In 1974 the town was made a metropolitan borough within the new Metropolitan...

of the historic and cultural region of Franche-Comté, Besançon is home to the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté regional council headquarters, and is an important...