Instead of coloring the departments by what country they belong to today, it would have been better to just show modern borders since the department borders don’t always match.
essentialaccount on
I would love to live in this France. It’s got two of the three countries I lived most of my life and most of the German regions I prefer.Â
thecrazyrai on
Ems Oriental and Occidental are funny names
Hazza_time on
Doesn’t this miss out Croatia?
Mundane-Alfalfa-8979 on
This would’ve kicked ass as a country if it stayed that way
Robcobes on
France and naming departments after rivers, name a better duo.
matchuhuki on
They loved naming stuff after rivers
Mahelas on
Non-french speakers can’t appreciate how hilarious some of the names are, it’s genuinely giving “we’ve officially run out of names, just name it whatever” level of low effort. I’ve only ever saw it here and with Canadian lakes
MrD3lta on
“Forêts” is still the best
EnvironmentalShift25 on
If Napoleon had just concentrated on consolidating power instead of invading Russia.
GustavoistSoldier on
Napoleon also annexed Dalmatia
LeMiaow51 on
The ardennes are wrongly shaped IIRC
Rough-Strawberry5985 on
Why are the French so adverse to naming places what they’re called? Paris’ arrondissements used to have actual names, but just got replaced by numbers.
Zandroe_ on
Why did the French annex the terrible mountain, were they stupid?
small_p_problem on
Nothing against Napo Super Capo coming to Italy, Belgium and Whatsnot and seizing them like a kid with an unsupervised baked cake, nor him balkanizing Piedmont, but *why on Hell French almost always name the departments after their rivers?*
And what about the Belgian? I get that they are the ass of all your jokes but, really, “Deux Nethes” ?
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Instead of coloring the departments by what country they belong to today, it would have been better to just show modern borders since the department borders don’t always match.
I would love to live in this France. It’s got two of the three countries I lived most of my life and most of the German regions I prefer.Â
Ems Oriental and Occidental are funny names
Doesn’t this miss out Croatia?
This would’ve kicked ass as a country if it stayed that way
France and naming departments after rivers, name a better duo.
They loved naming stuff after rivers
Non-french speakers can’t appreciate how hilarious some of the names are, it’s genuinely giving “we’ve officially run out of names, just name it whatever” level of low effort. I’ve only ever saw it here and with Canadian lakes
“Forêts” is still the best
If Napoleon had just concentrated on consolidating power instead of invading Russia.
Napoleon also annexed Dalmatia
The ardennes are wrongly shaped IIRC
Why are the French so adverse to naming places what they’re called? Paris’ arrondissements used to have actual names, but just got replaced by numbers.
Why did the French annex the terrible mountain, were they stupid?
Nothing against Napo Super Capo coming to Italy, Belgium and Whatsnot and seizing them like a kid with an unsupervised baked cake, nor him balkanizing Piedmont, but *why on Hell French almost always name the departments after their rivers?*
And what about the Belgian? I get that they are the ass of all your jokes but, really, “Deux Nethes” ?
Stuff votre tête dans l’eau de la Moselle.
I’ve always liked the name Deux-Néthes for the campine. It’s an attempt at trying to erase local culture/identity in the naming but fails to do so imo. I can still really identify with our two nete’s. I’ve walked along one of the rivers many times as a kid and it really has a special local air to it.