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For a united and centralized state like French Republic, it was impossible to stand. In 1950 was then created the Toponymy Commission of the National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information. This office aims to collect all the microtoponyms of France, in Europe and oversea. The task was to compile bibliographies (mostly local monographs) to gather around 40.000 toponyms each year, between 1950 and 1961, when this book was published. Topographers in this commission described around 500.000 microtoponyms. A large portion of those are written in a very unconventional way. Names from obscures dialects or forgotten languages written for the first time in this glossary.