| Basic: |
| A French commune is a type of French city. |
| Documentation: |
| Comment: Instances of #$FrenchCommune are the smallest administartive subdivision of contemporary France, they usually are subsumed into a FrenchDepartment . Created by the French Revolution, communes succeeded to parishes and medieval cities. #$AroundTheYear2000, France as several thousands of communes. |
| Structure: |
| Every French commune is part of some French department. |
| Miscellaneous: |
| Paris, France and Deols, France are French communes. |
| For every French commune there is one French department whose geopolitical subdivision is the French commune. Every French commune starts after the French Revolution does. |