Forêts
Also known as Forets
Forêts () was a department of the French First Republic, and later the First French Empire, in present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. Its name, meaning 'forests', comes from the Ardennes forests. It was formed on 24 October 1795, after the Austrian Netherlands had been annexed by France on 1 October. Before annexation, the territory was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and small parts of the Duchy of Bouillon. Its capital was Luxembourg City.
Key facts
- Former country.conventional_long_name
- Department of Forêts
- Former country.common_name
- Forêts
- Former country.year_start
- 1795
- Former country.year_end
- 1814
- Former country.image_map
- Forêts departement (1812).svg
- Former country.image_map_caption
- Location of Forêts in France (1812)
- Former country.official_languages
- French
- Former country.common_languages
- Luxembourgish, German
- Former country.status
- Department of: French First Republic French First Empire
- Former country.admin_center_type
- Chef-lieu
- Former country.admin_center
- Luxembourg
- Former country.event_start
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Forêts () was a department of the French First Republic, and later the First French Empire, in present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. Its name, meaning 'forests', comes from the Ardennes forests. It was formed on 24 October 1795, after the Austrian Netherlands had been annexed by France on 1 October. Before annexation, the territory was part of the Duchy of Luxembourg and small parts of the Duchy of Bouillon. Its capital was Luxembourg City.
14,176 men from the former Duchy of Luxembourg were conscripted into the French Revolutionary Army and the Grande Armée in these years, of whom 9,809 died on the battlefields of Europe.
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