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Here's an 8K-BAM map of France's généralités in 1789. Right is colored with the pays d'états and pays d'impositions in a lighter color due to their autonomous status.
ok so the Pays d'États and d'Imposition did not exactly follow the Généralités, but the Pays d'Élection did.
The Pays d'États were indeed autonomous in terms of taxes, voting their own contribution to the crown, among which we can count Brittany, Labourd, Soule, Béarn, Lower Navarre, Nébouzan, Bigorre, Comminges, Quatre Vallées, Foix, Languedoc, Marsan, Vivarais, Vélay, Gévaudan, Provence, Burgundy and
Mâconnais.
The Pays d'Imposition were under direct taxation from the crown, in opposition to the Pays d'Élection in which the taxation was delegated to State officials who usually bought their position. Among the Pays d'Imposition were Artois, Flanders, Hainaut, Lorraine, Barrois, Trois Évechés, Alsace, Free County, Roussillon and Corsica.
Their status sometimes were disputed, as Couserans was sometimes considered a Pays d'État
de iure but d'Élection
de facto, and the system present in Foix could have it be classified as a Pays d'Imposition. The Bresse and Bugey had Pays d'États but could've too been considered de facto Pays d'Élection, even though their État status itself was disputed. Corsica also had technically a Pays d'État status until 1789, it was effectively both.
The region of Dombes had a Pays d'Imposition to its own based in Trévoux from 1762 to 1787.
In Haute-Guyenne and Berry were experimented in the 1780's some weaker form of Pays d'État, which in June 1787 was by edict set to slowly take over the old system of Pays d'Élection, which would've brought the Généralités and their newly found financial and administrative status as the new most important subdivisions of the Kingdom, rather than the Provinces which until then had been the prime set of subdivisions.
Every Pays d'Imposition and Pays d'Élection was a Pays d'État at some point you can find a list there
fr.wikipedia.org
And since people perhaps are wondering, you can for you alternate history shove any piece of land conquered by France from like perhaps the 1610's up to the 1780's in the Pays d'Imposition category. Some more peculiar cases, perhaps such as those of bilateral annexation (I think of these times Catalonia recognised the French King as their ruler), would most likely spark discussions and their taxation status would be to be determined on a case by case basis.
Essentially I would advise to either try to show both the Provinces, Governments, Généralités and the Pays of taxation on a map, or to show them separately, on one hand a map featuring administrative subdivisions and on the other one the taxation subdivisions.
There are a few folks here who know a lot more about how that all worked, i'll gladly let them correct me