bouches-de

Updated: May 25, 2025

In accordance with his strict demands, he resolved to rectify the frontier separating Holland from Belgium, and by taking the Waal as the future limit to form two new French departments on this side the river, called Bouches-du-Rhin and Bouches-de- l'Escaut.

M. (François) Guizot - World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France