Mont-Terrible
| Mont-Terrible | |||||
| Department of Napoleonic France | |||||
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| Capital | Porrentruy 47°25′N 7°5′E / 47.417°N 7.083°ECoordinates: 47°25′N 7°5′E / 47.417°N 7.083°E | ||||
| Historical era | Napoleonic Wars | ||||
| • | Republic overthrows Bishopric of Basel |
19 December 1792 (29 Frimaire I) | |||
| • | Convention annexes Porrentruy, creating Mont-Terrible |
25 March 1793 (5 Germinal I) 1793 | |||
| • | Montbéliard occupied, annexed to Haute-Saône |
10–11 October 1793 (19–20 Vendémiaire II) | |||
| • | Montbéliard detached, attached to Mont-Terrible |
1 March 1797 (11 Ventôse V) | |||
| • | Gained remainder of Bp. Basel under Campo-Formio |
18 October 1797 (26 Vendémiaire VI) | |||
| • | Consulate annexes Mont-Terrible to Haut-Rhin |
17 February 1800 (28 Pluviôse VIII) 1800 | |||
| • | Partitioned between Doubs and Bern |
9 June 1815 | |||
| Today part of | |||||
Mont-Terrible was one of the 130 departments of Napoleonic France, with its capital at Porrentruy.
The Mont Terrible for which the department was named is now known as mont Terri, a peak of 804 metres near Courgenay (now in the canton of Jura, Switzerland). The toponym of mont Terrible was formed by popular etymology from an earlier Frainc-Comtou mont Tairi, from tari "arid, dry".
The department was created in 1793 with the annexation of the short-lived Rauracian Republic, which had been created in December 1792 from a part of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel. In 1797, the old principality of Montbéliard, formerly given to Haute-Saône, was reattached to Mont-Terrible. The department was abolished in 1800. Its territory was annexed to the Haut-Rhin, within which it formed the two arrondissements of Delémont and Porrentruy. In 1815, the territory that had previously formed Mont-Terrible was partitioned between Doubs (Montbéliard) and the Swiss canton of Bern (now forming the canton of Jura and the Bernese Jura).