Departmental Council of Corsica

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The Departmental Council of Corsica (French: Conseil départemental de Corse) was the deliberative assembly of the former French department of  [fr] (1790–1793, 1811–1976), on the island of Corsica.

History[]

In 1833, when the General Council was created, Corsica had only one department, since the merger of the two departments, Liamone and Golo in 1811.^[1] On 1st January 1976, by application of the law of May 15, 1975, it was split into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud, resulting in the dissolution of the single general council.

List of Presidents[]

The following is a list of presidents of the General Council from 1880 to 1976:^[2]

• around 1880: Patrice de Corsi
• 1888-1908: Emmanuel Arène
• 1908-1919:  [fr]
• 1919: Adolphe Landry
• 1920-1921: Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
• 1921-1922: Adolphe Landry
• 1922-1923:  [fr]
• 1923-1924: Adolphe Landry
• 1924-1927: Vincent de Moro-Giafferi
• 1927-1930: Adolphe Landry
• 1930-1931:
• 1931-1937: François Piétri
• 1937-1938: Adolphe Landry
• 1938-1940: Camille de Rocca Serra
• 1945-1951: Paul Giacobbi
• 1951-1953:  [fr]
• 1953-1956:
• 1956-1959:  [fr]
• 1959-1976:  [fr]

See also[]

• Corsican Assembly, est. 1982, is again since 2018 the only deliberative assembly on the island after merging with the former departmental councils of Corse-du-Sud and  [fr].

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