French Flanders

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County of Flanders Comté de Flandre (French)
862–1791
Flag Coat of arms
French Flanders in France (1789 borders)
Capital	Lille
Government
• Type	Province
King of West Francia / King of France
• 862–877	Charles II
• 1774–1791	Louis XVI
Governor of Flanders and Hainaut
• 1694–1711	Louis-François de Boufflers
• 1787–1791	Charles Eugène Gabriel de La Croix
History
• County created	862
• Disestablished	1791
Preceded by Succeeded by Kingdom of France Nord
Today part of	France

French Flanders (French: La Flandre française, pronounced [flɑ̃dʁə fʁɑ̃sɛz])^[1] is a part of the historical County of Flanders, where Flemish—a Low Franconian dialect cluster of Dutch—was (and to some extent, still is) traditionally spoken. The region lies in the modern-day northern French region of Hauts-de-France, and roughly corresponds to the arrondissements of Lille, Douai and Dunkirk on the northern border with Belgium. Together, with French Hainaut and Cambrésis, it makes up the French Department of Nord.