The département was formed in 1975, when the Corse département (n°20) was divided between Haute-Corse (2b) and Corse-du-Sud (2b).
Préfecture (capital): Ajaccio.
... Franc-Tireur[?] Left-wing group formed by Jean-Pierre Lévy[?] in Lyon in 1941. In December 1941 they began to publish Le Franc-Tireur underground newspaper. There were ...