Canton of Biel
The canton of Biel ( French Canton de Bienne ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire on the territory of today's Canton of Bern in Switzerland .
Mont-Terrible department
It was created on November 19, 1797, when the southern half of the former Principality of Basel, which had not yet been formally annexed , was assigned to the Mont-Terrible department, which was created in 1793 . The canton included the Orvin rule and part of the Erguel rule . On February 17, 1798, the city of Biel also joined, so that the canton consisted of the following 13 municipalities:
According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Biel had 5068 inhabitants, of whom 1313 were eligible to vote.
Haut-Rhin department
According to the law of the 28th Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17, 1800), the canton of La Neuveville was abolished and merged with the canton of Biel. The enlarged canton now belonged to the Arrondissement Delsberg in the department Haut-Rhin and comprised 18 municipalities:
Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Biel had 7,751 inhabitants, 1,857 of whom were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Bern .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).