Canton of Pruntrut

The canton of Pruntrut ( French Canton de Porrentruy ) was a canton of the First French Republic and the First Empire on the territory of today's Canton of Jura in Switzerland .

Mont-Terrible department

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 six municipalities:

• All
• Bressaucourt
• Courchavon
• Courtedoux
• Fontenais
• Pruntrut (main town)

According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th  Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton of Pruntrut had 3788 inhabitants, 775 of whom were eligible to vote.

Haut-Rhin department

According to the law of the 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the cantons of Chevenez , Coeuve and Cornol were merged with the canton of Pruntrut. The enlarged canton was now part of the Pruntrut arrondissement in the Haut-Rhin département and comprised 31 municipalities:

All Asuel Beurnevésin Boncourt Bonfol Bressaucourt Buix Bure Charmoille Chevenez Coeuve

Cornol Courchavon Courgenay Courtedoux Courtemaîche Damphreux Damvant Fahy Fontenais Fregiécourt

Grandfontaine Miécourt Montignez Montvoie Pleujouse Pruntrut / Porrentruy (main town) Réclère Roche-d'Or Rocourt Vendlincourt

Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Pruntrut had 12,535 inhabitants, of which 3,038 were eligible to vote. By resolution of the Congress of Vienna on March 20, 1815, the territory was added to the Canton of Bern ; since 1979 it has belonged to the canton of Jura .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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).