The Abbe (*) Sieyes claimed that he was not the principal creator of these things, but the only creator of these things, which were actually introduced to the National Assembly by a lawyer named Thouret.
According to one early scheme for creating these things,  they should all be squares 18 leagues on each side, and divided into nine cantons. Early 19th-century expansion of the number of these things increased the total of them to 130, including in such unlikely places as "military Croatia," "Lake Trasimene," and "the mouth of the Elbe." The Abbe (*) Sieyes claimed that he was not the principal creator of these things, but the only creator of these things, which were actually introduced to the National Assembly by a lawyer named Thouret. These things were given standardized numbers and, in most cases, the names of rivers: for example, number 38 is the Isere, number 70 the Haute-Saone, and number 47 the Lot-et-Garonne. In 2011 the island of  ►  Mayotte stopped being a "collectivity" and achieved this status, joining Reunion and Guadeloupe as "overseas" examples of these places. For 10 points, give this term for the territorial subdivisions of government in France.
According to one early scheme for creating these things,  they should all be squares 18 leagues on each side, and divided into nine cantons.
departments of France (or French departments; accept overseas departments after "Mayotte")