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	Lorraine and Barr have for Governor General the Marshal de Lorge, who, this present year 1694, succeeded the Marshal de B•ufflers, removed to the French-Flanders, upon the Death of the Marshal Humiers. Here is also a Lieutenant General, and particular Governors of 9 Towns and Castles.</blockquote>		Lorraine and Barr have for Governor General the Marshal de Lorge, who, this present year 1694, succeeded the Marshal de B•ufflers, removed to the French-Flanders, upon the Death of the Marshal Humiers. Here is also a Lieutenant General, and particular Governors of 9 Towns and Castles.</blockquote>

	== 1662. A Geographical dictionary in which are described... London. by Henry Brome. ==		=== 1662. A Geographical dictionary in which are described... London. by Henry Brome. ===
	<blockquote>France, a brave Kingdom of Europe, whose King carries the title of the most Christian.</blockquote>		<blockquote>France, a brave Kingdom of Europe, whose King carries the title of the most Christian.</blockquote>

	== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ==		=== 1693. A geographical dictionary representing the present and ancient names by Edmund Bohun. ===
	<blockquote>France, Francia, Gallia, is at this day one of the most potent Kingdoms in Europe, and the difficultest to limit and bound; it daily like the Ocean, gaining something from its Neighbours; whose divided strengths, are not equal to her united Forces: but yet I shall give you a general description of its bounds, as it stood about forty years since, and then in part shew what has been since added. On the East it was then bounded by the Alpes, which divide the Dauphiné from Piedmont; as also with Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and a part of the Netherlands: on the North with the Netherlands, and the British Seas: on the West with the Aquitain Ocean; on the South with Spain, from which it is divided by the Pyrenean Hills, and with the Mediterranean. Then accounted in length six hundred and sixty Italian Miles, in breadth five hundred and seventy, the whole circumference being two thousand and forty. In the times of Julius Caesar, it was bounded on the East by the Alpes, and the Rhine, extending to the Mouth of that River, from the Pyrenean Hills; so that it took in the far greatest part of what we now call the Netherlands, with all those of the German Empire which lie West of the Rhine, Switzerland and Savoy. And the great design of the present French King seems to have been the dilating of it again to the same extent: to which purpose he has spared neither Blood nor Treasure, Arts nor Labour: and perhaps if he had not been over-reached by the Jesuits, upon the design of uniting all his Subjects in one Religion by force, he might have succeeded when he was so near his point: for whereas Picardy was heretofore his Northern Province, he has taken in Artois, the greatest part of Flanders, of Hanault and Namur. Of the four Ports that did belong to Flanders, he has two, Graveling and Dunkirk: so that his Dominions extend on the Sea Shoar from Dunkirk to S. Jean de Luz in Spain, without any interruption. On the Eastern side he has possessed himself of the Dukedom of Lorrain, the Earldom of Burgundy, so much of Alsatia as lies on this side of the Rhine; and what his intentions towards the Switzers are, may be guessed at: nor has Savoy passed, especially since the late rupture, without contributing his share to aggrandize him. On the South he has gained from Spain, Roussillon: Catalonia hardly missed him: all the World may remember how narrowly the United Provinces escaped him in 1673. and 1674. He has not only been a gainer in his Wars, but even in times of Peace, by his Courts of Dependences, Forts, and other Methods: So that considering the Weakness and Divisions of his Neighbours, and the great Accessions he has already made; if so many thousands of his Subjects, had not been driven out, or rendred useless to him, who can tell what this great Prince might not have effected before his death? This vast Country or Kingdom has for its principal Rivers, the Loyre, the Rhosne, the Garonne, and the Seine. Called by the Inhabitants and English, France; by the Spaniards, Francia; by the Italians, Franza; Franzam by the Portuguese; Franckri•ch by the Germans; by the Dutch, Urancryck: by the Poles Francya and Francukazemia; by the Illyrians, Fracgnack; by the Turks, Franza; and by the Indians, Frankistan. All which Names are derived from its present Conquerors, and Inhabitants, the Franks or French. It is divided into sixty Counties, and these Provinces; the Isle of France, Burgundy, Normandy, Aquitain, Bretagne, Champagne, Languedock, Picardy, Dauphine, Lyonnois and Orleans. To which may be added four more, that are a kind of Conquest. Loraine, the Earldom of Burgundy, (or Franche Compte,) the Conquest of the Netherlands, and Alsatia. This King having added by his Arms, the Comte de Bourgogne, both the Alsatia's, the greatest part of Flanders, and Haynault, and Namur, part of Luxemburg, and all Artois; which last is now annexed to Picardy. The Capital of this Kingdom, is Paris. Besides these, he has New France in America, the greatest part of Hispaniola, several Plantations and Colonies in Africa, upon the Coast of Guinea, and some Islands in the North Sea. Thus Baudrand reckons up his Masters Dominions. This Tract of Land was heretofore inhabited by the Gaul•, of which I shall give an account in its proper place. See Gallia. The Franks were Originally a German Nation, inhabiting Franconia; which is still called East France, to distinguish it from this Country. This Nation joining with many other, upon the declining of the Roman Empire, under Pharamond, about 413. obtained that part of Belgium, which contained Zutphen, Ʋtrecht, Over-Yssel, both the Friselands, and so much of Holland, as lies on the same side of the Rhine; but whether ever Pharamond crossed the Rhine, is uncertain. However in 420. he became their first King, and formed this Potent Monarchy. Clodius his Son in 433. crossed the Rhine, and took Cambray, Tournay, and all Belgium to the River Some: but he dying whilst his Children were young, commended them to Meroveus, who dispossessed them, to make himself King of the Franks, in 441. or thereabouts: Meroveus was the Author of the Merovingian Line, and is by some made the first that seated in Gaul. His Son went further; and took all the Netherlands, Pioardy, Champagne, and the Isle of France, with Paris, which he made the Seat of this Empire. This Race under nineteen Princes continued to 742. when Pepin Son of Charles Martel, usurped upon Chilprick V. Son of Theodorick, and deposed him. The second, or Carolovinian Line, under thirteen Princes, lasted till 977. when Hugh Capet put an end to it, and set up the Third. Charles IV. the fourteenth of this Race, dying in 1328. without Issue, Edward III. of England, claimed that Crown, at Son and Heir of Isabel, the Daughter of King Philip the Fair, and Sister to the three last Kings. Against him, Philip de Valois set up a Title by colour of the Salick Law, which had excluded all Females. The whole Reign of this Prince, and John his Son, was double-died in Blood by the English Valour. Charles V. by means of the English Divisions, at last expell'd them. Yet under Charles VI. the English returned with more Vigour and Rage▪ and were under Henry V. in a fair way of reducing France. And he dying young, Henry VI. his Son, was crowned at Paris in 1422. But the Minority at first, and Weakness afterwards of this Prince, gave Charles VII. of France, an opportunity totally to expel the English the second time about 1449. The House of Valois ended in Henry III. slain before Paris in 1589. to whom succeeded Henry IV. the first of the House of Bourbone, and Grandfather of Lewis XIV. now King of France, who succeeded Lewis XIII. his Father in 1642. This is the shortest account I can give of the Bounds and History of this Kingdom; which in the Reign of Charles IX. was reckoned to contain above twenty Millions of people. It has in it (excluding the Conquered Countries) ten Seats of Parliament, fourteen Universities, sixteen Archbishopricks, besides Avignon and Besanzon, one hundred and five Bishopricks, and fifty thousand Parishes.</blockquote>		<blockquote>France, Francia, Gallia, is at this day one of the most potent Kingdoms in Europe, and the difficultest to limit and bound; it daily like the Ocean, gaining something from its Neighbours; whose divided strengths, are not equal to her united Forces: but yet I shall give you a general description of its bounds, as it stood about forty years since, and then in part shew what has been since added. On the East it was then bounded by the Alpes, which divide the Dauphiné from Piedmont; as also with Savoy, Switzerland, Germany, and a part of the Netherlands: on the North with the Netherlands, and the British Seas: on the West with the Aquitain Ocean; on the South with Spain, from which it is divided by the Pyrenean Hills, and with the Mediterranean. Then accounted in length six hundred and sixty Italian Miles, in breadth five hundred and seventy, the whole circumference being two thousand and forty. In the times of Julius Caesar, it was bounded on the East by the Alpes, and the Rhine, extending to the Mouth of that River, from the Pyrenean Hills; so that it took in the far greatest part of what we now call the Netherlands, with all those of the German Empire which lie West of the Rhine, Switzerland and Savoy. And the great design of the present French King seems to have been the dilating of it again to the same extent: to which purpose he has spared neither Blood nor Treasure, Arts nor Labour: and perhaps if he had not been over-reached by the Jesuits, upon the design of uniting all his Subjects in one Religion by force, he might have succeeded when he was so near his point: for whereas Picardy was heretofore his Northern Province, he has taken in Artois, the greatest part of Flanders, of Hanault and Namur. Of the four Ports that did belong to Flanders, he has two, Graveling and Dunkirk: so that his Dominions extend on the Sea Shoar from Dunkirk to S. Jean de Luz in Spain, without any interruption. On the Eastern side he has possessed himself of the Dukedom of Lorrain, the Earldom of Burgundy, so much of Alsatia as lies on this side of the Rhine; and what his intentions towards the Switzers are, may be guessed at: nor has Savoy passed, especially since the late rupture, without contributing his share to aggrandize him. On the South he has gained from Spain, Roussillon: Catalonia hardly missed him: all the World may remember how narrowly the United Provinces escaped him in 1673. and 1674. He has not only been a gainer in his Wars, but even in times of Peace, by his Courts of Dependences, Forts, and other Methods: So that considering the Weakness and Divisions of his Neighbours, and the great Accessions he has already made; if so many thousands of his Subjects, had not been driven out, or rendred useless to him, who can tell what this great Prince might not have effected before his death? This vast Country or Kingdom has for its principal Rivers, the Loyre, the Rhosne, the Garonne, and the Seine. Called by the Inhabitants and English, France; by the Spaniards, Francia; by the Italians, Franza; Franzam by the Portuguese; Franckri•ch by the Germans; by the Dutch, Urancryck: by the Poles Francya and Francukazemia; by the Illyrians, Fracgnack; by the Turks, Franza; and by the Indians, Frankistan. All which Names are derived from its present Conquerors, and Inhabitants, the Franks or French. It is divided into sixty Counties, and these Provinces; the Isle of France, Burgundy, Normandy, Aquitain, Bretagne, Champagne, Languedock, Picardy, Dauphine, Lyonnois and Orleans. To which may be added four more, that are a kind of Conquest. Loraine, the Earldom of Burgundy, (or Franche Compte,) the Conquest of the Netherlands, and Alsatia. This King having added by his Arms, the Comte de Bourgogne, both the Alsatia's, the greatest part of Flanders, and Haynault, and Namur, part of Luxemburg, and all Artois; which last is now annexed to Picardy. The Capital of this Kingdom, is Paris. Besides these, he has New France in America, the greatest part of Hispaniola, several Plantations and Colonies in Africa, upon the Coast of Guinea, and some Islands in the North Sea. Thus Baudrand reckons up his Masters Dominions. This Tract of Land was heretofore inhabited by the Gaul•, of which I shall give an account in its proper place. See Gallia. The Franks were Originally a German Nation, inhabiting Franconia; which is still called East France, to distinguish it from this Country. This Nation joining with many other, upon the declining of the Roman Empire, under Pharamond, about 413. obtained that part of Belgium, which contained Zutphen, Ʋtrecht, Over-Yssel, both the Friselands, and so much of Holland, as lies on the same side of the Rhine; but whether ever Pharamond crossed the Rhine, is uncertain. However in 420. he became their first King, and formed this Potent Monarchy. Clodius his Son in 433. crossed the Rhine, and took Cambray, Tournay, and all Belgium to the River Some: but he dying whilst his Children were young, commended them to Meroveus, who dispossessed them, to make himself King of the Franks, in 441. or thereabouts: Meroveus was the Author of the Merovingian Line, and is by some made the first that seated in Gaul. His Son went further; and took all the Netherlands, Pioardy, Champagne, and the Isle of France, with Paris, which he made the Seat of this Empire. This Race under nineteen Princes continued to 742. when Pepin Son of Charles Martel, usurped upon Chilprick V. Son of Theodorick, and deposed him. The second, or Carolovinian Line, under thirteen Princes, lasted till 977. when Hugh Capet put an end to it, and set up the Third. Charles IV. the fourteenth of this Race, dying in 1328. without Issue, Edward III. of England, claimed that Crown, at Son and Heir of Isabel, the Daughter of King Philip the Fair, and Sister to the three last Kings. Against him, Philip de Valois set up a Title by colour of the Salick Law, which had excluded all Females. The whole Reign of this Prince, and John his Son, was double-died in Blood by the English Valour. Charles V. by means of the English Divisions, at last expell'd them. Yet under Charles VI. the English returned with more Vigour and Rage▪ and were under Henry V. in a fair way of reducing France. And he dying young, Henry VI. his Son, was crowned at Paris in 1422. But the Minority at first, and Weakness afterwards of this Prince, gave Charles VII. of France, an opportunity totally to expel the English the second time about 1449. The House of Valois ended in Henry III. slain before Paris in 1589. to whom succeeded Henry IV. the first of the House of Bourbone, and Grandfather of Lewis XIV. now King of France, who succeeded Lewis XIII. his Father in 1642. This is the shortest account I can give of the Bounds and History of this Kingdom; which in the Reign of Charles IX. was reckoned to contain above twenty Millions of people. It has in it (excluding the Conquered Countries) ten Seats of Parliament, fourteen Universities, sixteen Archbishopricks, besides Avignon and Besanzon, one hundred and five Bishopricks, and fifty thousand Parishes.</blockquote>

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	***** Orleanois, Orleans.		***** Orleanois, Orleans.
	***** Blaisois, Blois.		***** Blaisois, Blois.
	***** Touraine, Tours.		***** Touraine, [[Tours]].
	***** Anjou, Angiers.		***** Anjou, Angiers.
	**** Beyond the LOIRE,		**** Beyond the LOIRE,

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	***** Calais.		***** Calais.
	**** Boulenois,		**** Boulenois,
	**** Vexin, — Roven, or Roa•.		**** Vexin, — [[Roven]], or Roa•.
	*** [[Normandy\|NORMANDY]],		*** [[Normandy\|NORMANDY]],
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	****** Havre de Grace.		****** Havre de Grace.
	***** Vexin Normandy,		***** Vexin Normandy,
	****** Roven, or Roan,		****** [[Roven]], or Roan,
	****** Gisors,		****** Gisors,
	****** Pont de l'Arche.		****** Pont de l'Arche.

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 Several Divisions are made of France, which regard the Church, the Nobility, the Justice, and the Finances. It is sufficient to say here, that the States-General of the Kingdom were held in the Year 1614. that then all the Provinces appear'd under twelve Great Governments; four of those Governments are towards the North, the Seine, and the Rivers which fall into it, Picardy, Normandy, the Isle of France and Champaign. Four towards the midst, near the Loire, Brittany, Orleanois, Burgundy, and Lyonnois. The four others, towards the South, and near the Garonne or the Rosne, Guyenne, Languedoc, Dauphine, Provence. With Orleanois they then conjoyned le Mains, le Perche, la Beauce, on this side the River of Loire; Nivernois, Tourain, Anjoy, above the said River; beyond it, Poictou, Angoumois, Berri. Burgundy had la Bresse, as it has still at present. Under Lyonnois, were Lyonnois, Avergne, Bourbonnois, la Marche. In Guyenne was Bearne, Gascogne, true Guyenne beyond the Garonne; and on this side Saintogne, Perigort, Limosin, Querci, Rouergue. Then, as well as now, Languedoc comprehended Cevenes. The other great Governments are not subdivided into great Provinces. Now follow the capital Cities, according to that distribution, Amiens, Rouen, Paris, Troyes, Rennes, Mans, No-gent-le-Retrou, Orleans, Nevers, Tours, Angers, Poictiers, Angoulesme, Bourges, Dijon, Bourg-en-Bresse, Lyon, Clermont, Moulins, Gueret, Pau, Auch, Bourdeaux, Saintes, Perigueux, Limoges, Cahors, Rodes, Toulouse, Viviers, Grenoble, and Aix.</blockquote>
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 Lorraine and Barr have for Governor General the Marshal de Lorge, who, this present year 1694, succeeded the Marshal de B•ufflers, removed to the French-Flanders, upon the Death of the Marshal Humiers. Here is also a Lieutenant General, and particular Governors of 9 Towns and Castles.</blockquote>

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	* The Isle of FRANCE (see [[The Isle of France\|main article]])		* The Isle of FRANCE (see [[The Isle of France\|main article]])

			* CHAMPAIGNE (see [[Campania\|main article]])
	* 1.142CHAMPAIGNE, so called from being a Champain Country; its chief places are, 1. Rheims, famous for being the place where the Kings of France are usually Crowned, and anointed with an Oil here kept, which they say came down from Heaven, and never decreaseth; and here is a Colledge for English Jesuits. 2. Chaaloons, 3. Langres, 4. Sens, and 5. Troyes, all places of some account.

	* 1.143BRETAIGNE, or Britanny, whose chief Port-Towns are Brest, Blavet, and St. Malos; and within Land the Cities of 1. Nantes, seated on the Loire. 2. Rennes, where the Parliament for this Province is held. 3. Vennes, seated on the South-Sea. 4. Breine; and 5. Morlaix, of note for its great store of Paper so called.		* 1.143BRETAIGNE, or Britanny, whose chief Port-Towns are Brest, Blavet, and St. Malos; and within Land the Cities of 1. Nantes, seated on the Loire. 2. Rennes, where the Parliament for this Province is held. 3. Vennes, seated on the South-Sea. 4. Breine; and 5. Morlaix, of note for its great store of Paper so called.

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