Mapping the Third Republic A Geographic Information System of France (1870–1940) Online Appendix Victor Gay∗ Forthcoming at Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History List of Appendix Figures A.1 Construction Logic of the TRF-GIS.......................4 A.2 Missing Territories During the Third Republic.................5 A.3 Number of Communes in TRF-GIS Commune-Level Nomenclatures.....5 A.4 Number of Départements, Arrondissements, and Cantons (1870–1940)....6 A.5 Number of Military Constituencies (1870–1940)................6 A.6 Military Constituencies in 1870, 1874, 1919, and 1940.............7 A.7 Number of Judicial (1870–1940) and Penitentiary Constituencies (1871–1940)8 A.8 Judicial Constituencies in 1870, 1871, 1926, and 1940.............9 A.9 Penitentiary Constituencies in 1871, 1888, 1909, and 1940........... 10 A.10 Number of Electoral, Academic, Labor inspection, and Ecclesiastical Con- stituencies..................................... 11 A.11 Electoral Constituencies (Circonscriptions) in 1876, 1889, 1919, and 1928.. 12 A.12 Academic, Labor Inspection, and Ecclesiastical Constituencies in 1919.... 13 A.13 Département-Level Abstention Rates in Legislative Elections 1914...... 14 A.14 Circonscription-Level Abstention Rates in Legislative Elections 1914..... 15 ∗Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST), University of Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France (email: [email protected]). List of Appendix Tables A.1 Composition of Annexed Territories of Alsace-Lorraine (1871)........ 16 A.2 Reconfiguration of Territories of Alsace-Lorraine that Remained in France (1871–1873).................................... 17 A.3 Reconfiguration of Territories of Alsace-Lorraine within the German Empire (1871–1918).................................... 18 A.4 Arrondissements Reform of 1926......................... 19 A.5 Territorial Modifications to Cantons (1870–1940)............... 22 A.6 Territorial Composition of Military Constituencies in 1870: Army Corps and Military Divisions................................. 25 A.7 Territorial Modifications to Military Constituencies (1874–1940)....... 26 A.8 Territorial Modifications to Judicial and Penitentiary Constituencies (1870–1940).................................... 27 A.9 Territorial Modifications to Electoral Constituencies (1870–1940)....... 28 A.10 Territorial Composition of Academic Constituencies (1870–1940)....... 29 A.11 Territorial Composition of Dioceses in the Départements of Savoie and Haute- Savoie....................................... 30 A.12 Territorial Modifications to Ecclesiastical Constituencies (1822–1940).... 31 A.13 Toponymic Modifications to Arrondissements (1870–1940).......... 31 A.14 Toponymic Modifications to Cantons (1870–1940)............... 32 A.15 Mapping Cantons to Pseudo-Cantons (1870–1940)............... 39 A.16 Mapping Pseudo-Cantons to Pseudo-Military Regions (1874–1940)...... 50 A.17 Mapping Pseudo-Cantons to Pseudo-Military Subdivisions (1874–1940)... 51 A.18 Composition of Pseudo-Military Subdivisions (1874–1940).......... 57 A.19 Formal Diocesan Toponymy (1870–1940).................... 58 A.20 Summary of TRF-GIS Data Files for General Administrative Constituencies 59 A.21 Summary of TRF-GIS Data Files for Military Constituencies......... 60 A.22 Summary of TRF-GIS Data Files for Judicial and Penitentiary Constituencies 61 A.23 Summary of TRF-GIS Data Files for Electoral, Academic, Labor Inspection, and Ecclesiastical Constituencies, and Commune-Level Nomenclatures.... 62 A.24 Variables in Annual General Administrative Constituency-Level Nomenclatures 63 A.25 Variables in Annual Military Constituency-Level Nomenclatures....... 64 A.26 Variables in Annual Judicial and Penitentiary Constituency-Level Nomencla- tures........................................ 65 2 A.27 Variables in Annual Electoral, Academic, Labor Inspection, and Ecclesiastical Constituency-Level Nomenclatures....................... 66 A.28 Variables in Annual Commune-Level Nomenclatures.............. 67 A.29 Supporting Administrative Sources....................... 68 A.30 Inaccuracies in the HAC database........................ 86 A.31 Errata in Tableau des Élections 1914...................... 93 3 Figure A.1. Construction Logic of the TRF-GIS Notes. HAC corresponds to the Histoire Administrative des Communes database distributed through cassini.ehess.fr. COG (2005, 2011) corresponds to INSEE’s Codes Officiels Géographiques nomencla- tures 2005 and 2011. GEOFLA (2011) corresponds to IGN’s GEOFLA R Communes Édition 2011 France Métropolitaine (GEOFLA) shapefile. 4 Figure A.2. Missing Territories During the Third Republic Notes. Missing territories compared to the current territory of metropolitan France, as represented by IGN’s GEOFLA 2011. The territories of Alsace-Lorraine, missing between 1871 and 1918, are in green, and those of La Brigue and Tende, missing between 1870 and 1940, are in blue. 40 39 38 37 36 Number of communes (thousands) 35 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 Figure A.3. Number of Communes in TRF-GIS Commune-Level Nomenclatures Notes. Red vertical dashed lines indicate the annexation (1871) and recovery (1919) of Alsace-Lorraine. 5 3200 100 450 3100 400 95 3000 350 90 2900 Number of cantons 300 85 2800 Number of départements Number of arrondissements 250 2700 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 80 200 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 (c) Cantons and (a) Départements (b) Arrondissements pseudo-cantons Figure A.4. Number of Départements, Arrondissements, and Cantons (1870–1940) Notes. Red vertical dashed lines indicate the annexation (1871) and recovery (1919) of Alsace-Lorraine, as well as the arrondissements reform (1926). In Panel c, the blue line denotes cantons, and the gray line, pseudo-cantons. 25 200 20 160 15 120 10 80 5 40 Number of military corps / regions Number of military divisions / subdivisions 0 0 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 (a) Military Corps and Regions (b) Military Divisions and Subdivisions Figure A.5. Number of Military Constituencies (1870–1940) Notes. Between 1870 and 1873, military corps and military divisions; between 1874 and 1940, military regions and subdivisions of military regions. Red vertical dashed lines indicate the military reform of 1874, and the annexation (1871) and recovery (1919) of Alsace-Lorraine. 6 (a) 1870 (b) 1874 (c) 1919 (d) 1940 Figure A.6. Military Constituencies in 1870, 1874, 1919, and 1940 Notes. Thick lines delineate military corps (1870) and military regions (1874, 1919, 1940) and thin lines, military divisions (1870) and subdivisions of military regions (1874, 1919, 1940). 7 50 50 500 40 40 400 30 30 300 20 20 200 Number of courts appeal 10 10 100 Number of courts first instance Number of penitentiary constituencies 0 0 0 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 (a) Courts of Appeal (b) Courts of First Instance (c) Penitentiary Constituencies Figure A.7. Number of Judicial (1870–1940) and Penitentiary Constituencies (1871–1940) Notes. Red vertical dashed lines indicate the annexation (1871) and recovery (1919) of Alsace-Lorraine. 8 (a) 1870 (b) 1871 (c) 1926 (d) 1940 Figure A.8. Judicial Constituencies in 1870, 1871, 1926, and 1940 Notes. Thick lines delineate courts of appeal and thin lines, courts of first instance. 9 (a) 1871 (b) 1888 (c) 1909 (d) 1940 Figure A.9. Penitentiary Constituencies in 1871, 1888, 1909, and 1940 10 25 750 20 600 15 450 10 300 Number of circonscriptions 5 150 Number of academic constituencies 0 0 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 (a) Electoral Constituencies (b) Academic Constituencies 20 150 16 120 12 90 8 60 Number of dioceses 4 30 Number of labor inspection constituencies 0 0 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 1860 1880 1900 1920 1940 (c) Labor Inspection Constituencies (d) Ecclesiastical Constituencies Figure A.10. Number of Electoral, Academic, Labor inspection, and Ecclesiastical Constituencies Notes. In Panel a, red vertical dashed lines indicate shifts from a block-list electoral system to a single- member electoral system, and green vertical dashed lines indicate the reverse. In Panels b, c, and d, red vertical dashed lines indicate the annexation (1871) and recovery (1919) of Alsace-Lorraine. 11 (a) 1876 (b) 1889 (c) 1919 (d) 1928 Figure A.11. Electoral Constituencies (Circonscriptions) in 1876, 1889, 1919, and 1928 Notes. Thicker lines delineate départements. 12 (a) Academic Constituencies (b) Labor Inspection Constituencies (c) Ecclesiastical Constituencies Figure A.12. Academic, Labor Inspection, and Ecclesiastical Constituencies in 1919 Notes. In Panel c, Thick lines delineate the extent of metropolitan bishoprics and thin lines, dioceses. 13 Figure A.13. Département-Level Abstention Rates in Legislative Elections 1914 Notes. Abstention rates are the ratio of abstentions to registered voters. Data are from the Tableau récapit- ulatif des inscrits et des votants par départements (pp. 93–5). Errors in the original source are documented in Panel A of Appendix Table A.31. The symobolgy of the map follows that of the map from the Tableau récapitulatif (p. 96). 14 Figure A.14. Circonscription-Level Abstention Rates in Legislative Elections 1914 Notes. Abstention rates are the ratio of abstentions to registered voters. Data are from the Tableau des élections générales à la chambre des députés pour la onzième législature (26 avril et 10 mai 1914) (pp. 17–89). Errors in the original source are documented in Panel B of Appendix Table A.31. The symobolgy of