Meanings of departments of france in English

It was tried in twelve different departments of France, and found perfectly useless.

The more dense, therefore, the population in those departments of France, the stronger was our case.

Germany, moreover, claims to have converted them from poor departments of France to wealthy industrial communities.

We are in one of the poorest departments of France, but no signs of want or vagrancy are seen.

Then again, the concession of local self-government to the island, as one of the Departments of France, revealed unexpected difficulties.

They had been all over Belgium and up into the Northern Departments of France occupied by the Germans, investigating conditions.

Eighty-five rounds were discharged from the artillery in honour of the eighty-five departments of France, and the following toasts were given:

Rumors, also, which soon proved to be well founded, of an approaching insurrection in the western departments of France, reached the capital.

In reality the East and North departments of France, which have been invaded, were producing chiefly Basic Bessemer pig iron and steel.

Deputations and addresses were immediately poured in upon him from Paris and from all the departments of France, congratulating him upon his escape.

The fecundity of a dense population in certain departments of France is greater than that of a thinly scattered population in certain counties of England.

Thereupon, all the others, prefects and 'subs,' throughout the eighty and odd departments of France, hasten to show themselves vigilant and, if need be, energetic.