Francheville () was a former regional county municipality in the Mauricie region of Quebec, Canada. Prior to its dissolution, it had an area of .Rapport sur la réorganisation municipale et les équipements supra locaux dans la MRC de Francheville ()
The RCM was dissolved on December 31, 2001, when Saint-Étienne-des-Grès was transferred to the Maskinongé Regional County Municipality, the municipalities of Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Pointe-du-Lac, Saint-Louis-de-France, Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap, Trois-Rivières and Trois-Rivières-Ouest were merged into the new City of Trois-Rivières, and the remaining municipalities became part of the new Les Chenaux Regional County Municipality.
Although the division no longer functions as a regional county municipality in the political sense, the amalgamated city of Trois-Rivières and the regional county municipality of Les Chenaux are still grouped together as the census division of Francheville by Statistics Canada for census purposes. The division had a population of 143,267 in the Canada 2006 Census.Canada 2006 Census Community Profiles: Francheville . Statistics Canada.
Subdivisions Prior to its dissolution, the RCM consisted of:
Villes Cap-de-la-Madeleine Saint-Louis-de-France Sainte-Marthe-du-Cap Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières-Ouest
Municipalities Batiscan Champlain Pointe-du-Lac Saint-Luc-de-Vincennes Saint-Stanislas Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade
Parish municipalities Saint-Étienne-des-Grès Saint-Maurice Saint-Narcisse Saint-Prosper Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan
See also 21st-century municipal history of Quebec
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