Under the Ancien Régime, a pays d'états (, ) was a type of généralité, or fiscal and financial region where, in contrast to the pays d'election, an estates provincial or representative assembly of the three orders had retained its traditional role of negotiating the raising of taxes with the royal commissaires or intendants, dividing the tax burden by diocese and parish, and controlling tax collection. The estates also held onto part of the funds thus raised to repair and develop the roads in its province.
According to Roland MousnierLes institutions de la France sous la monarchie absolue, 1598-1789, PUF, Paris, 2005 and Bernard BarbicheLes institutions de la Monarchie française à l’époque moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, PUF, Paris, (1999) the pays d'états were:
Alsace. Estates suppressed - 17th century Anjou. Estates suppressed - 15th century Artois. Estates suppressed - 1789. Auvergne. Estates suppressed - 17th century Basse-Navarre. Estates suppressed - 1789. Béarn. Estates suppressed - 1789. Berry. Estates suppressed - 16th century Bigorre. Estates suppressed - 1789. Bourgogne (Burgundy). Estates suppressed - 1789. Bresse. Estates suppressed - 1789. Bretagne (Brittany). Estates suppressed - 1789. Bugey. Estates suppressed - 1789. Cambrésis. Estates suppressed - 1789. Charolais. Estates suppressed - 1789. Comminges Estates suppressed - 1622 Corse (Corsica). Estates suppressed - 1789. Dauphiné. Estates suppressed - 17th century Flandre (Flanders). Estates suppressed - 1789. Foix. Estates suppressed - 1789. Franche-Comté. Estates suppressed - 18th century Gévaudan. Estates suppressed - 1789. Hainaut (Hainault). Estates suppressed - 1789. Labourd. Estates suppressed - 1789. Languedoc. Estates suppressed - 1789. Limousin. Estates suppressed - 15th century Mâconnais. Estates suppressed - 1789. Maine. Estates suppressed - 16th century Marche. Estates suppressed - 15th century Marsan. Estates suppressed - 1789. Nébouzan. Estates suppressed - 1789. Normandie (Normandy). Estates suppressed - 17th century Orléanais. Estates suppressed - 16th century Périgord. Estates suppressed - 16th century Provence. Estates suppressed - 1789. Quatre-Vallées. Estates suppressed - 1789. Quercy. Estates suppressed - 17th century Rouergue. Estates suppressed - 17th century Soule. Estates suppressed - 1789. Touraine. Estates suppressed - 16th century Velay. Estates suppressed - 1789. Vivarais. Estates suppressed - 1789.
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See also Subdivisions of France under the Ancien Régime