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Orléanais (ɔʁleanɛ) is a former province of France, around the cities of Orléans, Chartres, and Blois. The name comes from Orléans, its main city and traditional capital. The province was one of those into which France was divided before the French Revolution. It was the country around Orléans, the pagus Aurelianensis; it lay on both banks ...
one of the généralités (`generalities`) into which France was divided before the Revolution of 1789. It comprised not only the territory of the ...
[n] - a former province of north central France
noun a former province of north central France; centered around Orleans
a former province in N France. Cap.: Orléans.