Bouches-du-Rhin

The Département des Bouches -du- Rhin ( department of the German Rhine estuaries; Dutch Department van de van de Rijn moons ) was from 1810 to 1813 to the French state belonging to the department. It was named after the mouth of the Rhine, but comprised only a part of it.

History

Before 1790, the area belonged to the Department of the Republic of the United Netherlands, it comprised the south of the Waal -lying part of the historical province of Gelderland and the eastern half of North Brabant. In connection with the Revolution in France (1789 ) and the first Revolutionary War ( 1792-1797 ) was created in 1795 in the northern Netherlands, the Batavian Republic. 1806 went on this in the Kingdom of Holland, ruled by Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte.

Louis took effect on March 16, 1810 from a closed to Paris Agreement " North Brabant, Zeeland with inclusion of the island Schouwen and funds on the left side of the Waal " in France, so that now the border between Holland and France by the thalweg of the Waal at Schenkenschanz to has been formed to the sea. With the Senate's resolution of 24 April 1810, the new Department of the Rhine mouths was formed in the area, the western part was added to the Department of the Nethen.

According to the French administrative division in the department of arrondissements, cantons and municipalities were divided. The cantons were also justice of the peace districts.

After Napoleon's defeat in the Battle of Leipzig ( October 1813 ) the country came into the possession of William of Orange -Nassau in December 1813. Taken in response to the Congress of Vienna (June 1815) agreements, the region to the new Kingdom of the Netherlands. In August 1815 this was divided into provinces, from the department of the Rhine estuaries originated the modern province of North Brabant, part went to the province of Gelderland.

Structure

Capital ( chef-lieu ) of the department or office of the prefecture was the city of 's- Hertogenbosch ( Den Bosch also; double Bois- le- Duc). It was divided into three arrondissements and cantons 21:

The Department had an area of ​​4,814 square kilometers and in 1813 a total of 257 580 inhabitants.