Document de travail

Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940)

Victor Gay

Résumé

This article describes a comprehensive geographic information system of Third-Republic France: the TRF-GIS. It provides annual nomenclatures and shapefiles of administrative constituencies of metropolitan France from 1870 to 1940, encompassing general administrative constituencies (départements, arrondissements, cantons) as well as the most significant special administrative constituencies: military, judicial and penitentiary, electoral, academic, labor inspection, and ecclesiastical constituencies. It further proposes annual nomenclatures at the contemporaneous commune level that map each municipality into its corresponding administrative framework along with its population count.

Mots-clés

GIS, HGIS; Administrative boundaries; Nomenclature; Toponymy; France; Third Republic;

Codes JEL

  • N: Economic History

Remplacé par

Victor Gay, « Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940) », Historical Methods, vol. 54, n° 4, août 2021, p. 189–207.

Référence

Victor Gay, « Mapping the Third Republic: A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940) », TSE Working Paper, n° 20-1151, octobre 2020.

Publié dans

TSE Working Paper, n° 20-1151, octobre 2020