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A route nationale, or simply nationale, is a trunk road in France. Trunk roads are in France are important roads which cross broad portions of the French territory, as opposed to secondary or communal roads who only serve local areas.
Their use is free, except when crossing certain structures subjected to toll. They are open to all vehicles, except on certain sections having the status of motorway (autoroute).
France currently has 30,500 km of nationales and publicly-owned motorways. By comparison, routes départementales cover a total distance of 365,000 km. The main trunk road network reflects the centralising tradition of France: the majority of them leave the gates of Paris. Indeed, trunk roads begin on the parvis of Notre-Dame of Paris at Kilometre Zero. To ensure an effective road network, new roads not serving Paris were created.
"Point zéro" (kilomètre zéro) on the parvis of Notre-Dame of Paris
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History
The system dates back to December 16, 1811, when Napoleon designated a number of routes impériales (imperial highways). First class routes were numbered from 1 to 14; all began at Paris, radiating out in a clockwise manner. Route 1 ran from Paris north to Calais, and is still the general path of route nationale 1. Second class routes, from 15 to 27, did the same, while third class routes from 28 to 229 provided less major connections. During the Bourbon Restoration, in 1824, these routes were renamed routes royales (royal highways) and modified. Route 3, Paris to Hamburg via Soissons, Reims and Liège, was renumbered to 31 and 51, and the subsequent routes were shifted down by one. Routes 19 and 20 were completely outside the post-Napoleon France, and so 21 to 27 became 18 to 24. In 1830 the highways were renamed routes nationales.[1]
In 2006 the French Government downgraded a number of the routes nationales to departmental status.[citation needed]
List of routes nationales
Routes nationales 1 to 25
Routes nationales 26 to 50
Number Runs through: N26 Verneuil-sur-Avre (N12) - Argentan N27 Rouen - Dieppe N28 Rouen - Abbeville - Dunkerque N29 Yvetot - Amiens - Saint-Quentin - La Capelle N30 Bapaume - Cambrai - Valenciennes - Quiévrain N31 Rouen - Beauvais - Compiègne - Soissons - Reims N32 Compiègne - La Fère N33 Saint-Avold - Creutzwald N34 Vincennes - Coulommiers - Esternay N35 Saint-Dizier - Bar-le-Duc - Verdun N36 Meaux - Melun N37 A6 - RN7 N38 N39 Arras - Hesdin - Le Touquet-Paris-Plage N40 N41 Béthune - Lille N42 Boulogne-sur-Mer - Saint-Omer - Bailleul N43 Metz - Sedan - La Capelle - Charleville-Mézières - Cambrai - Douai - Lens - Béthune - Saint-Omer - Calais N44 Cambrai - Saint-Quentin - Laon - Reims - Châlons-en-Champagne - Vitry-le-François N45 Douai - Valenciennes N46 N47 Lens - La Bassée N48 N49 Valenciennes - Maubeuge - Jeumont - Belgium (N54) N50 Arras - Douai Routes nationales 51 to 75
Number Runs through: N51 Épernay - Reims - Charleville-Mézières - Givet N52 Metz - Thionville - Longwy N53 Thionville - Évrange N54 N55 N56 Saint-Avold - Sarralbe N57 Metz - Nancy - Épinal - Vesoul - Besançon - Pontarlier - Ballaigues N58 Sedan - Bouillon N59 Nancy - Saint-Dié-des-Vosges - Sélestat N60 Orléans - Montargis - Sens - Troyes N61 Phalsbourg - Saarbrücken N62 Sarreguemines - Haguenau N63 Strasbourg - Haguenau - A35 N64 N65 Auxerre - A6 N66 Remiremont - Mulhouse - Bâle N67 Saint-Dizier - Chaumont N68 N69 N70 Paray-le-Monial - Montchanin N71 Troyes - Dijon N72 Access to A6 at Mâcon-Nord. N73 Besançon - Dole - Chalon-sur-Saône N74 Sarreguemines - Château-Salins - Nancy - Toul - Chaumont - Langres - Dijon - Beaune - Corpeau N75 Bourg-en-Bresse - Grenoble - Sisteron Routes nationales 76 to 100
Routes nationales 101 to 125
Routes nationales 126 to 150
Number Runs through: N126 Toulouse - Castres N127 N128 N129 N130 N131 N132 Cherbourg N133 N134 Saugnacq-et-Muret - Mont-de-Marsan - Pau - col du Somport N135 Bar-le-Duc - Ligny-en-Barrois N136 Rennes N137 Saint-Malo - Rennes - Nantes - La Rochelle - Saintes - Bordeaux N138 Rouen - Alençon - Le Mans - Tours N139 N140 Cressensac - Figeac - Rodez N141 Saintes - Angoulême - Limoges - Aubusson - Clermont-Ferrand N142 Bourges N143 Tours - Châteauroux N144 Bourges - Montluçon - Riom N145 Bellac - Guéret - Montluçon N146 Avallon - A6 N147 Angers - Poitiers - Limoges N148 Sainte-Hermine - Niort N149 Nantes - Poitiers N150 Niort - Royan Routes nationales 151 to 175
Number Runs through: N151 Poitiers - Châteauroux - Bourges - La Charité-sur-Loire - Auxerre N152 Fontainebleau - Orléans - Tours - Angers N153 Thionville - Apach N154 Louviers - Évreux - Dreux - Chartres - Artenay N155 N156 N157 Orléans - Le Mans - Laval - Rennes N158 Caen - Falaise - Sées N159 N160 Angers - Cholet - La Roche Sur Yon - Les Sables d'Olonne N161 N162 Mayenne - Laval - Angers N163 N164 Montauban-de-Bretagne - Châteaulin N165 Nantes - Vannes - Lorient - Quimper - Brest N166 Ploërmel - Vannes N167 N168 N169 Lorient - Roscoff N170 N171 La Baule - Châteaubriant - Laval N172 N173 N174 Carentan - St Lô - Vire N175 Rennes - Pontorson - Avranches - Caen - Rouen Routes nationales 176 to 200
Number Runs through: N176 Pré-en-Pail - Domfront - Dinan - Échangeur N12/E50 N177 Pont-l'Évêque - Trouville-sur-Mer N178 N179 N180 N181 N182 N183 N184 Saint-Germain-en-Laye - l'Isle Adam N185 N186 N187 N188 Massy / A10 - Les Ulis N189 N190 N191 Mennecy - Étampes - Ablis N192 N193 N194 N195 N196 Ajaccio - Bonifacio
N197 Ponte Leccia - Calvi
N198 Casamozza - Bonifacio
N199 N200 Routes nationales 201 and beyond
References
External links
Categories:- Routes nationales in France
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