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Province of Alsace Province d'Alsace | |||||||||||||
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1648–1790 | |||||||||||||
Location of Alsace within the Kingdom of France in 1789 | |||||||||||||
Capital | Strasbourg | ||||||||||||
Demonym | Alsacien, Alsaciens, Alsacienne, Alsaciennes | ||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||
• Type | Province | ||||||||||||
King of France | |||||||||||||
• 1648–1715 | Louis XIV | ||||||||||||
• 1774–1790 | Louis XVI | ||||||||||||
Governor General of Alsace | |||||||||||||
• 1788–1789 | Jacques Philippe, Marquis de Choiseul-Stainville | ||||||||||||
Historical era | Early Modern | ||||||||||||
1648 | |||||||||||||
• Decree dividing France into departments | 1790 | ||||||||||||
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The Province of Alsace (Province d'Alsace) was an administrative region of the Kingdom of France and one of the many provinces formed in the late 1600s. In 1648, the Landgraviate of Upper-Alsace was absorbed into the Kingdom of France and subsequently became the Province of Alsace, which it remain an integral part of for almost 150 years. In 1790, as a result of the decree dividing France into departments, the province was disestablished and split into three departments: Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine), Haut-Rhin (Upper Rhine), and part of Moselle.