Pruntrut District
The district of Pruntrut ( French District de Porrentruy ) was an administrative unit of the First French Republic . It existed in the area of today's Canton of Jura in Switzerland . The main town was Pruntrut (Porrentruy) .
From March 23, 1793, the district was part of the newly created department of Mont-Terrible , when the French National Convention formally annexed the Raurak Republic, which had been founded four months earlier (this in turn had emerged from territories of the former duchy of Basel ). The Pruntrut district comprised eight cantons :
- Canton of Chevenez
- Canton of Cornol
- Canton of Coeuve
- Canton of Epauvillers
- Canton of Pruntrut
- Canton of Saint-Brais
- Canton of Saint-Ursanne
- Saignelégier canton
The constitution of the 5th fructidor of year III (April 22, 1795) no longer provided for districts as administrative units of a department , but only cantons and communes . The law of the 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800) created the arrondissements as a new administrative level. The Arrondissement Pruntrut in the department of Haut-Rhin emerged from the areas of the former districts of Porrentruy and Montbéliard .
literature
- Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908 ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ André Bandelier: Mont Terrible. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- ^ Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800. Pp. 283-285.
- ^ Constitution du 5 Fructidor An III. Conseil constitutionnel , accessed November 16, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Loi du 28e pluviose an VIII concernant la division du territoire français et l'administration. (PDF, 24 kB) Université de Picardie, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).