Canton of Epauvillers

The canton of Epauvillers ( French Canton d'Epauvillers ) was a canton of the First French Republic on the territory of today's Canton of Jura in Switzerland .

It was created on March 23, 1793 with the formal annexation of the Raurak Republic decided by the French National Convention . The canton was part of the Pruntrut district in the newly created Mont-Terrible department and comprised four municipalities:

• Epauvillers (main town)
• Epiquerez
• Montenol
• Soubey

According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th  Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton Epauvillers had 877 inhabitants, 215 of whom were eligible to vote. It was repealed under the law of the 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800) and the communes came to the canton of Saint-Ursanne in the arrondissement of Pruntrut of the department of Haut-Rhin .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gustave Gautherot: Le département du Mont-Terrible: 1793-1800 . Librairie Honoré Champion, Paris 1908, p. 283 ( online ).
2. ↑ 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). 
3. ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).