Saignelégier canton

The canton of Saignelégier ( French Canton de Saint-Ursanne ) 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 twelve municipalities:

Goumois La Chaux-des-Breuleux Le Bémont Le Noirmont Le Peuchapatte Les Bois

Les Breuleux Les Pommerats Malnuit Muriaux Saignelégier (main town) Vautenaivre

According to a circular from the Ministry of the Interior of the 7th  Frimaire of the year VI (November 27, 1797), the canton Saignelégier had 4639 inhabitants, of whom 1325 were eligible to vote.

Haut-Rhin department

According to the law of the 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800), the canton of Saint-Brais was abolished and merged with the canton of Saignelégier. The enlarged canton was now part of the Pruntrut arrondissement in the Haut-Rhin département and comprised 19 municipalities:

Cerniévillers Goumois La Chaux-des-Breuleux La Joux Le Bémont Le Noirmont Le Peuchapatte Les Bois Les Breuleux Les Enfers

Les Genevez Les Pommerats Malnuit Montfaucon Montfavergier Muriaux Saignelégier (main town) Saint-Brais Vautenaivre

Based on the figures in the circular from 1797, the canton of Saignelégier had 6,745 inhabitants, 1,900 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 ; 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).