Canton of Saint-Brais

The canton of Saint-Brais ( French Canton de Saint-Brais ) 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 seven municipalities:

• Cerniévillers
• La Joux
• Les Enfers
• Les Genevez
• Montfaucon
• Montfavergier
• Saint-Brais (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 Saint-Brais had 2106 inhabitants, 575 of whom were eligible to vote. It was repealed under the law of 28th  Pluviôse of the year VIII (February 17th, 1800) and the communes came to the canton of Saignelégier in the arrondissement of Pruntrut of the Haut-Rhin department .

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 15, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ CHAPITRE X: administrative organization. In: L'almanach impérial pour l'an 1810. napoleon-series.org, accessed on November 16, 2015 (French).