More appropriate new regions for France

After the decision was taken to have less regions in metropolitan France, the success have been mitigated to say least, and many people are unsatisfied.

It was not the first time that French government tried to change regions. A first comitee happened under Balladur, that came up with this, but it was screwed by people of Picardy refusing to but partitioned :

Projet-Balladur.jpg


(I have not found any English map, so brown lines are new borders, and yellow departments have several possibilities)

So the new regions are really different, only obtained by fusing former regions.


The question is, do you have propositions for other regions ? The goal is to have the smallest possible number of regions, with cultural proximity, a historical name, and keeping the departments. Suggestions ? (Both maps and vague ideas are welcome)
 
When they were looking for suggestions for a name for what is now 'Nouvelle Aquitane' several people are alleged to have suggested 'Angleterre'.
 
Why on Earth ? x3 Well, there was the whole Plantagenent stuff, okay, but then call it Guyenne x3
Well it was English for nigh on 250 years. I remember reading of an Arab traveller in the 14th century who decided not to bother to go to London as he had already been to Bordeaux which he found just as English. Even 150 years ago a river traveller on the Gironde met an old boy and questioned him about some feature on the river bank and the old boy replied that it was the scene of a battle when the French invaded Gascony. And who can warm to a government in Paris which is like another country?

Mind you. it is always heartwarming to see the England football proudly wearing the 3 Leopards of Aquitane......... That would be the same Prince of Aquitane who burned down our village on the late morning of Wednesday 17th August 1356. The Mayor today ascribes it to the English but it was more likely Gascon light cavalry. But then to the locals Gascons were English. They moved the village downhill out of sight of the road. It worked. The English have never burned it down since......
 
I know, but even if it's closely tied to England, it is just not England, and New England is already taken as a name, so I really don't understand. The title was Duke of Guyenne and King of England, so really I'm lost
 
Mako-Chan. This was no serious suggestion, just a way of winding up the national government. Calling it Nouvelle Aquitaine as they did just p*ssed of those from traditional Aquitaine and similarly those in the north who had nothing to do with Aquitaine. My local area still calls itself after the pre Revolution name whatever the official titles may be. One of my neighbours up here in the north of the new region of Nouvelle Aquitaine was heard to ask what we had in common with 'those Spaniards down in the Pyrenees'.....
 
Mako-Chan. This was no serious suggestion, just a way of winding up the national government. Calling it Nouvelle Aquitaine as they did just p*ssed of those from traditional Aquitaine and similarly those in the north who had nothing to do with Aquitaine. My local area still calls itself after the pre Revolution name whatever the official titles may be. One of my neighbours up here in the north of the new region of Nouvelle Aquitaine was heard to ask what we had in common with 'those Spaniards down in the Pyrenees'.....

Yeah, Bearn and Poitou have nothing to do with each others. This comes from a very long tradition of jacobinism : if the national government says it's called Heights of France, call it this way, even if it's dumb. Even in Berry people call themselves Bérichons instead of using the departments names.

This "Father knows best" attitude is really plaguing France ...
 
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