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

Victor Gay (1, 2)

1 IAST - Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
2 TSE-R - Toulouse School of Economics

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. The 901 nomenclatures, 830 shapefiles, and complete reproduction material along with primary sources of the TRF-GIS database are available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/TRF-GIS.

Mots clés: GIS; HGIS; Administrative boundaries; Nomenclature; Toponymy; France; Third Republic

Mots clés: SIG; SIGH; Limites administratives; Nomenclature; Toponymie; France; Troisième République

Domaines: Sciences de l'Homme et Société; Economies et finances; Histoire; Géographie; Démographie

Victor Gay. Mapping the Third Republic. A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940). 2021. ⟨hal-02951461v2⟩