The department of the Forêts was a French Département, of October 1st 1795 with 1814, date of the abdication of Napoleon I {{er}} and allied occupation.

Creation

The decree of the Convention of the 9 vendémiaire year IV links Liege and the ten Belgian provinces in France. It envisages the division of the country in nine departments whose delimitation will be spring of the only French police chiefs. This decree still envisages the fast installation of the departmental and municipal administrations, of the courts. All the civils servant will have to be elected in accordance with the Constitution.

The department of the Forests was mainly made up of the old Duchy of Luxembourg and part of the Duchy of Bouillon.

Geography

It was limited:

  • in north , by the departments of Sambre-and-Meuse, of the Ourthe and the the Saar;
  • in the east , by the department of the Saar;
  • in the south , by the departments of the the Moselle, the Meuse and the the Ardennes;
  • in the west , by the departments of the Ardennes and of Sambre-and-Meuse.

Its name came from the forest of the Ardennes covering the major part of its territory. It corresponds to the current territories of the province of Belgian Luxembourg, the Grand-Duché of Luxembourg and the west of the the Rhineland-Palatinat.

Organization

It was divided into 4 districts:

  • Luxembourg: prefecture
  • Bitburg: sub-prefecture
  • Diekirch: sub-prefecture
  • Neufchâteau: sub-prefecture

This department comprised 28 cantons:

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