French Flanders

County of Flanders
Comté de Flandre (French)
862–1791

French Flanders in France (1789 borders)
CapitalLille
Government
 • TypeProvince
King of West Francia / King of France 
• 862–877
Charles II
• 1774–1791
Louis XVI
Governor of Flanders and Hainaut 
• 1694–1711
Louis-François de Boufflers
• 1787–1791
Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix
History 
• County created
862
• Disestablished
1791
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Kingdom of France
Nord
Today part ofFrance

French Flanders (French: Flandre française [flɑ̃dʁ(ə) fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; Dutch: Frans-Vlaanderen; West Flemish: Frans-Vloandern) is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium. Together, with French Hainaut and Cambrésis, it makes up the French Department of Nord.

Territorial changes due to the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659), including French Flanders