French constituency names, stuff and so forth

[big bad fab]

I'm sorry, but the French National Assembly has just voted a law allowing the governement to redistrict "circonscriptions législatives".

So, the present map will be, in a year or less, completely changed.

What is more, "circonscriptions législatives" aren't generally based on "historical" lands or "pays" if you prefer. So it's really difficult to give precise names and you are obliged to alternate between names of towns or rivers and "historical" names: a bit frustrating.

Your "Pithiverais" district in Loiret could be named "Gâtinais", but not exactly, for example.
The most awful are districts in the Petite Couronne (Hauts-de-Seine, Val-de-Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis) and in most of the Grande Couronne (apart from rural Seine-et-Marne, Vexin français in Val-d'Oise and Hurepoix or some other districts in Yvelines).

Paris is the only one were you can give homogenous names (of historical boroughs).

I think a funnier idea would be to try to give other names to regions (Guyenne-Périgord-Landes-Béarn instead of Aquitaine ! Lyonnais-Savoie-Dauphiné instead of Rhône-Alpes !) and departments (Rouergue instead of Aveyron).

Anyway, bon courage for this thread.

[big bad fab]

BTW, le Figaro has written about the recent by-election in Gironde-8 that it is the largest "circonscription" in France.
Le Télégramme de Brest wrote the same for Finistère-6....

It's of course wrong in both cases, as, in Landes, Côte d'Or, Alpes de Haute Provence, Haute-Corse, even Aveyron, Haute-Marne, Creuse or Gironde (Médoc), there are big constituencies.

Do you know which is the largest ?

[big bad fab]

Probably French Polynesia-2, I'd say.

Yeah, right. But I meant only "métropole". I can't find it.
Never mind, it's really without any interest.