There are about 36,000 of these, the basic unit of local government; there was an ill-fated one of Paris in 1871
As Abels says, 'In ...... Wales, 
England, Normandy, Picardy and Paris, south to Poitou and ..... defined the 
medieval tactical unit thusly: 'a battle formation in which ..... (RS 51, 18681871), 
1.