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1953:, themselves divided into arrondissements, themselves divided into cantons, themselves divided into communes, no exceptions. All of these communes would have equal status, they would all have a mayor at their head and a municipal council elected by the inhabitants of the commune. This was a real revolution for the thousands of villages that never had experienced organized municipal life before. A communal house had to be built in each of these villages, which would house the meetings of the municipal council as well as the administration of the commune. Some in the National Assembly were opposed to such a fragmentation of France into thousands of communes, but eventually 2311:) in their own name instead of those of the communes, and with the same level of taxation across the communes of the community. The communities must also manage some services previously performed by the communes, such as garbage collection or transport, but the law also makes it mandatory for the communities to manage other areas such as economic planning and development, housing projects, or environment protection. Communities of communes are required to manage the fewest areas, leaving the communes more autonomous, while urban communities are required to manage most matters, leaving the communes within them with less autonomy. 710: 447: 2345:
because the suburban communes refused an urban community for fear of losing too much power, and opted for a community of agglomeration, despite the fact that a community of agglomeration receives less government funds than an urban community. As for Paris, no intercommunal structure has emerged there, the suburbs of Paris fearing the concept of a "Greater Paris", and so disunity still is the rule in the metropolitan area, with the suburbs of Paris creating many different intercommunal structures all without the city.
1938:) passed a law creating the commune, designed to be the lowest level of administrative division in France, thus endorsing these independently created communes, but also creating communes of its own. In this area as in many others, the work of the National Assembly was, properly speaking, revolutionary: not content with transforming all the chartered cities and towns into communes, the National Assembly also decided to turn all the village parishes into full-status communes. The Revolutionaries were inspired by 2750: 330: 2333:
the services previously managed by the syndicate, contrary to the spirit of the law which has established the new intercommunal structures to carry out a much broader range of activities than that undertaken by the old syndicates. Some say that, should government money transfers be stopped, many of these communities of communes would revert to their former status of syndicate, or simply completely disappear in places where there were no syndicates prior to the law.
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years ago, with the same limits. Countless rural communes that had hundreds of inhabitants at the time of the French Revolution now have only a hundred inhabitants or fewer. On the other hand, cities and towns have grown so much that their urbanized area is now extending far beyond the limits of their commune which were set at the time of the revolution. The most extreme example of this is Paris, where the urbanized area sprawls over 396 communes.
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urban area: some communes refusing to take part in it, or even creating their own structure. In some urban areas like Marseille there exist four distinct intercommunal structures! In many areas, rich communes have joined with other rich communes and have refused to let in poorer communes, for fear that their citizens would be overtaxed to the benefit of poorer suburbs.
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These impressive results however may hide a murkier reality. In rural areas, many communes have entered a community of communes only to benefit from government funds. Often the local syndicate has been turned officially into a community of communes, the new community of communes in fact managing only
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In exchange for the creation of a community, the government allocates money to them based on their population, thus providing an incentive for communes to team up and form communities. Communities of communes are given the least money per inhabitant, whereas urban communities are given the most money
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The median population given here should not hide the fact that there are pronounced differences in size between French communes. As mentioned in the introduction, a commune can be a city of 2 million inhabitants such as Paris, a town of 10,000 inhabitants, or just a hamlet of 10 inhabitants. What the
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In urban areas, the new intercommunal structures are much more a reality, being created by local decision-makers out of genuine belief in the worth of working together. However, in many places, local feuds have arisen, and it was not possible to set up an intercommunal structure for the whole of the
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Those without fiscal power, the loosest form of intercommunality. Mainly in this category are the traditional syndicates of communes. Communes gather and contribute financially to the syndicate, but the syndicate cannot levy its own taxes. Communes can leave the syndicate at any time. Syndicates can
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The Chevènement law tidied up all these practices, abolishing some structures and creating new ones. In addition, it offered central government finance aimed at encouraging further communes to join in intercommunal structures. Unlike the only partially successful statute enacted in 1966 and enabling
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From 1794 to 1977 — except for a few months in 1848 and 1870-1871 — Paris had no mayor and was thus directly controlled by the departmental prefect. This meant that Paris had less autonomy than certain towns or villages. Even after Paris regained the right to elect its own mayor in 1977, the central
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Mergers, however, are not easy to achieve. One problem is that mergers reduce the number of available elected positions, and thus are not popular with local politicians. Moreover, citizens from one village may be unwilling to have their local services run by an executive located in another village,
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In metropolitan France 57 percent of the 36,683 communes have fewer than 500 inhabitants and, with 4,638,000 inhabitants, these smaller communes constitute just 7.7 percent of the total population. In other words, just 8 percent of the French population live in 57 percent of its communes, whilst 92
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One major often raised problem with intercommunality, is the fact that the intercommunal structures are not subject to direct election by the people, so it is the representatives of each individual commune that sit in the new structure. As a consequence, civil servants and bureaucrats are the ones
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Moreover, intercommunal structures in many urban areas are still new, and fragile: Tensions exist between communes; the city at the center of the urban area often is suspected of wishing to dominate the suburban communes; communes from opposing political sides also may be suspicious of each other.
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offered support and money from the government to entice the communes to merge freely with each other, but the law had only a limited effect (only about 1,300 communes agreed to merge with others). Many rural communes with few residents struggle to maintain and manage basic services such as running
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were decreased from 24,400 to 8,400 in the space of a few years – France only carried out mergers at the margin, and those were mostly carried out during the 19th century. From 41,000 communes at the time of the French Revolution, the number decreased to 37,963 in 1921, to 36,569 in
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have all depopulated the countryside and increased the size of cities. French administrative divisions, however, have remained extremely rigid and unchanged. Today about 90 percent of communes and departments are exactly the same as those designed at the time of the French Revolution more than 200
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in 1916. After the war, it was decided that the land previously occupied by the destroyed villages would not be incorporated into other communes, as a testament to these villages which had "died for France", as they were declared, and to preserve their memory. The following communes are entirely
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Today, French communes are still very much the same in their general principles as those that were established at the beginning of the Revolution. The biggest changes occurred in 1831, when the French Parliament re-established the principle of the election of municipal councils, and in 1837 when
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French law makes allowances for the vast differences in commune size in a number of areas of administrative law. The size of the municipal council, the method of electing the municipal council, the maximum allowable pay of the mayor and deputy mayors, and municipal campaign finance limits (among
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section below) to 904 in January 2007. Consequently, the Alsace region—despite having a land area only one-fifth the size and a total population only one-sixth of that of its neighbor Baden-Württemberg—has almost as many municipalities. The small Alsace region has more than double the number of
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Two famous examples of this are Toulouse and Paris. In Toulouse, on top of there being six intercommunal structures, the main community of Toulouse and its suburbs is only a community of agglomeration, although Toulouse is large enough to create an Urban Community according to the law. This is
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in 1859, but after 1859 the limits of Paris rigidified. Unlike most other European countries, which stringently merged their communes to better reflect modern-day densities of population (such as Germany and Italy around 1970), dramatically decreasing the number of communes in the
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revolutionaries were afraid of independent local powers, which they saw as conservative and opposed to the revolution, and so they favored a powerful central state. Therefore, when they created the communes, they deprived them of any legal "personality" (as they did with the
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or communities was reduced from 3,378 in 1968 to 1,108 in September 2007. In comparison, the number of communes in Alsace was only reduced from 946 in 1971 (just before the Marcellin law aimed at encouraging French communes to merge with each other was passed, see
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for the provision of such services as refuse collection and water supply. Suburban communes often team up with the city at the core of their urban area to form a community charged with managing public transport or even administering the collection of local taxes.
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population of metropolitan France's communes at the 1999 census was 380 inhabitants. Again this is a very small number, and here France stands absolutely apart in Europe, with the lowest communes' median population of all the European countries (communes in
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are large by French standards. They usually group into the same commune several villages or towns, often with sizeable distances among them. In RĂ©union, demographic expansion and sprawling urbanization have resulted in the administrative splitting of some
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The Chevènement law has been extremely successful in the sense that a majority of French communes now have joined the new intercommunal structures. On 1 January 2007, there were 2,573 such communities in metropolitan France (including five
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On 20 September 1792, the recording of births, marriages, and deaths also was withdrawn as a responsibility of the priests of the parishes and handed to the mayors. Civil marriages were established and started to be performed in the
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as France, and even there an extensive merger movement has started in the last 10 years. To better grasp the staggering number of communes in France, two comparisons can be made: First, of the original 15 member states of the
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may cover a smaller area, as mentioned above, but they are more populated). This small median population of French communes can be compared with Italy, where the median population of communes in 2001 was 2,343 inhabitants,
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Paris in fact was one of the very few communes of France whose limits were extended to take into account the expansion of the urbanized area. The new, larger, commune of Paris was set up under the oversight of Emperor
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to re-establish peace in France, stabilize the new administrative system, and make it generally accepted by the population. Napoleon also abolished the election of the municipal councils, which now were chosen by the
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On 20 September 1792, following the massacre of some 250 priests, the Legislative Assembly secularized the registration of births, marriages, and deaths, which became the responsibility of mayors.
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These three structures are given varying levels of fiscal power, with the community of agglomeration and the urban community having the most fiscal power, levying the local tax on corporations (
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During the revolution, approximately 41,000 communes were created, on territory corresponding to the limits of modern-day France (the 41,000 figure includes the communes of the departments of
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was shot by the crowd on the steps of Paris City Hall. Although in the Middle Ages the provosts of the merchants symbolized the independence of Paris and even had openly rebelled against King
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these municipal bodies were not democratic; they were usually in the hands of some rich bourgeois families upon whom, over time, nobility had been conferred, so they can be better labeled as
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per inhabitant, thus pushing communes to form more integrated communities where they have fewer powers, which they might otherwise have been loath to do if it were not for government money.
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median population tells us is that the vast majority of the French communes only have a few hundred inhabitants, but there are also a small number of communes with much higher populations.
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can be created by merger of a number of communes at the request of the municipal councils of all the communes or at the initiative of the state representative in the department (the
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Most of the communes in Alsace, along with those in other regions of France, have rejected the central government's calls for mergers and rationalization. By way of contrast, in the
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area of metropolitan France's communes at the 1999 census was even smaller, at 10.73 square kilometres (4.14 sq mi). The median area gives a better sense of the size of a
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is the only administrative unit below the commune in the French Republic but exists only in these three communes. These municipal arrondissements are not to be confused with the
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in contrast had only 6 million inhabitants), which accounts for the large number of parishes. French kings often prided themselves on ruling over a "realm of 100,000 steeples".
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to quell the ongoing revolution. Several other cities of France quickly followed suit, and communes arose everywhere, each with their municipal guard. On 14 December 1789, the
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be set up for a particular purpose or to deal with several simultaneous matters. These structures have been left untouched by the Chevènement law, and they are on the decline.
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are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The
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was immediately set up to replace the old medieval chartered city of Paris, and a municipal guard was established to protect Paris against any attempt made by King
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there are approximately 75,000 communes; France alone, which comprises 16 percent of the population of the EU-15, had nearly half of its communes. Second, the
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In areas where languages other than French are or were spoken, most place-names have been translated into a French spelling and pronunciation, such as
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of 1971, the Chevènement law met with a large measure of success, so that a majority of French communes are now involved in intercommunal structures.
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bordering Alsace, the geo-political and administrative areas have been subject to various re-organizations from the 1960s onward. In the state of
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which, in spite of having a population nine times larger and a land area four times larger than Alsace, is divided into just 390 municipalities (
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ranking above the others, a sort of mayor, although not with the same authority and executive powers as a modern mayor. This "mayor" was called
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Thus, they set out to establish administrative divisions that would be uniform across the country: the whole of France would be divided into
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Structures with fiscal power. This is what the Chevènement law was concerned with, and it distinguished three structures with fiscal power:
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In December 2010 the law n° 2010-1563 regarding reform of territorial collectivities was adopted, which created the legal framework for the
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with a ceremony not unlike the traditional one, with the mayor replacing the priest, and the name of the law replacing the name of God ("
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of the commune. The municipal councilors are elected by the inhabitants of the commune for a 6-year term. Each commune is governed by a
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government retained control of the Paris police. In all other French communes, the municipal police are under the mayor's supervision.
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There have long been calls in France for a massive merger of communes, including by such distinguished voices as the president of the
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are dependent on a commune for their administration. This is unlike some other countries, such as the United States, where
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setting up the agenda and implementing it, with the elected representatives of the communes only endorsing key decisions.
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of 12 July 1999 is the most recent and most thoroughgoing measure aimed at strengthening and simplifying this principle.
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Parishes lacked the municipal structures of post-Revolution communes. Usually, one contained only a building committee (
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Since the PLM Law of 1982, three French communes also have a special status in that they are further divided into
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there was no uniform status for these chartered cities, each one having its own status and specific organization.
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are the lowest level of administrative division in France and are governed by elected officials including a
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were on equal footing, and rendered decisions collegially. However, for certain purposes, there was one
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during the Middle Ages, either from the king himself or from local counts or dukes (such as the city of
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in Germany were the only places in Europe where the communes had a smaller median area than in France.
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mainland France commune than the average area since the average includes some very large communes.
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directly governed by a county or a higher authority can be found. There are only a few exceptions:
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The whole territory of the French Republic is divided into communes; even uninhabited mountains or
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Apart from the above cases, the communes with the fewest inhabitants in the French Republic are:
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In recent years it has become increasingly common for communes to band together in intercommunal
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other features) all depend on the population echelon into which a particular commune falls.
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vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like
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chartered by the counts of Toulouse). These cities were made up of several parishes (up to
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Despite differences in population, each of the communes of the French Republic possesses a
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Since then, tremendous changes have affected France, as they have the rest of Europe: the
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at the 2002 Census of Governments, fewer than that of the French Republic. The number of
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have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are
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Before the revolution, France's lowest level of administrative division was the parish (
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is the department in France with the fewest communes, with only single commune of an
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French communes were created at the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789–1790.
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typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All
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to various entities in France, notably the communes (which do not coincide with
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Loi n° 2010-1563 du 16 décembre 2010 de réforme des collectivités territoriales
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which were annexed in 1795, but does not include the departments of modern-day
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The commune of the French Republic farthest away from Paris is the commune of
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Direction générale des collectivités locales (DGCL), Ministry of the Interior
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The two communes in the French Republic with the longest names (38 letters):
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The commune of the French Republic with the shortest name is the commune of
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unpopulated and are managed by a council of three members, appointed by the
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is the most populous commune of France with 2,187,526 residents as of 2017.
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urban communes to form urban communities or the more marked failure of the
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With its 904 communes, Alsace has three times as many municipalities as
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Furthermore, two regions without permanent habitation have no communes:
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whom they may consider unaware of or inattentive to their local needs.
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50 parishes in the case of Paris), and they were usually enclosed by a
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