Name of the French cities under the Revolution

Under the French revolution several towns of France were débaptisées (approximately 1200 cities) one allotted a revolutionary name to them. This name change was wanted by the Revolution, because of the dechristianization one changed the names of the cities starting with “Saint” or “Holy”, but also with retaliatory measure (as the town of Lyon which became Commune-Freed). The name changes did not survive the Revolution or very little.

Towns of France: Revolutionary name

Acute-Dead: Port-furrier
Angouleme: Mountain-Charente
Arpajon: Francval
Bordeaux: Commune-Franklin
Boulogne-sur-Mer: Port-in-the Union
Borough-in-Bresse: Borough Regenerates
Borough-the-Queen: Borough-the Equality
Borough-Saint-Maurice: Nargue-Sardinian
Castelsarrasin: Mount-Sarrazin
Chantilly: Field-free
Castle-Thierry: Castle-equality
Castle-Saline: Saline-free
Compiegne: Marat-on-Oise
Condé-sur-Escaut: North-free
Dunkirk: Dune-free
Fontenay-the-Count: Fontenay-the-people
Grenoble: Grelibre
Tour-du-Pin: Valley-of-pine
Tremblade: Meeting-on-Seudre
Le Havre: The Harbor-Marat
Lyon: Commune-freed
Marly-the-King: Marly-the-machine
Marseilles: City-without-name
Montargis: Mount-Coulounies
Montbeliard: Mount-joined together
Mount-with-Marsan: Mount-Marat
Montfort-l' Amaury: Montfort-le-Brutus (Yvelines, source: registers of Civil statue of the time)
Montmartre: Mount-Marat
Montmorency: Mount-Emile
Mount-Saint-Michel: Mount-Michel, Mount-Free
Neufchâteau: Mouzon-Meuse
Nogent-le-Rotrou: Nogent-the-republican
Plessis-Robinson: Plessis-freedom,
Quimper: Mountain-on-Odet
Laugh-Orangis: Brutus
Rochechouart : Rock-on-seed
Rocroy: Rock-free
Saint-Amand-Montrond: Libreval
Saint-Cloud: Bridge-the-mountain, the Mountain-Darling
Saint-Denis: Franciade
Saint-Etienne: Free-city, Arm-City, Commune-in Armes
Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer: Mountain-of-Good-air
Saint-Lo: Rock-of-the-freedom
Saint-Malo: Port-Malo
Saint-Mandé: The Revolution
Saint-Maur-of-Ditches: The Alive-on-Marne
Saint-Nazaire: Marat
Saint-Pierre-of-Body: Republican Clearness
Saint-Tropez: Héraclée
Holy-Maxime: Cassius
Saint-Symphorien it Castle: Fit-army
Holy: Xantes
Souillac : Thirty-one
Toulon: Port-the-mountain
Tremblay-in-France: Tremblay-without-breeches
Versailles: Cradle-of-the-freedom
Villefranche-sur-Saône: The City-Free-on-Saone, Commune-Frank
Ile de Ré: Island-republican
Island of Oléron: Island-of-the-freedom
Island of Yeu: Island-of-the-meeting
islands of Lérins: islands Marat and Lepeletier

Department of the Vendée: Department-avenged

Sources

See too

http://www.genealogie-standard.org/saisir/lieux_revolution.html

List of periphrases indicating of the cities

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