Working paper

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

Victor Gay

Abstract

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.

Keywords

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

JEL codes

  • N: Economic History

Replaced by

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

Reference

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

Published in

TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1151, October 2020