As a result, the centuries-old singularities of the various Occitan-speaking parts were overlooked and shaken in a deliberate effort by the newly formed government to weaken and parcel out long-established feudal domains so that republican France would subdue traditional allegiances, as Antonin Perbòsc reveals in the Foreword to his Anthologie: When the Constituante (National Constituent Assembly) created the départements, their goal was clearly to erase the old geographical and historical distinction of the provinces; however this goal was not as perfectly met as some would have liked: in general, the départements were made up of pieces of existing provinces, quite seldom of the reunion of parts from different provinces.
En consequéncia, las singularitats pluricentenàrias dels diferents païses d'Òc foguèron pas presas en compte e mai s'aflaquiguèron jos l'accion deliberada del govèrn novèlament format per fragilizar e devesir los domenis feudals establits fa bèl temps, de tal biais que la França republicana s'apoderèsse de las afinitats tradicionalas, coma Antonin Perbòsc o confessa dins lo prefaci de son Antologia: Quand la Constituenta creèt los departaments, son intencion èra clarament d'escafar l'anciana destinga geografica amb istorica de las províncias; pr'aquò aquesta tòca foguèt pas atencha tan plan coma d'unes que i a o aguèssen esperat: en general, los departaments nasquèron de la fragmentacion de las províncias, pro rarament de l'agropament de parts que venián de províncias diferentas.WikiMatrix WikiMatrix