Claim: From year 1876 to 1940 there are no list of senators of Nièvre, a department in the center of France which was named after the River Nièvre.
Evidence: 1876–1879  1879–1888  1888–1897  1897–1920  1920–1924  1924–1933  1933–1940  Nièvre (IPA: [njɛvʁ (listen)) is a department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in the centre of France named after the River Nièvre.