{{For|the military march|Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse}} {{Short description|Former French department}} {{Infobox former country |native_name = {{native name|fr|Département de Sambre-et-Meuse}} |conventional_long_name = Department of Sambre-et-Meuse |common_name = Sambre-et-Meuse |year_start = 1795 |year_end = 1814 |flag = |image_flag = |image_map = Sambre-et-Meuse departement (1812).svg |image_map_caption = Location of Sambre-et-Meuse in France (1812) |official_languages = [[French language|French]] |status = [[Departments of France|Department]] of the [[French First Republic]] and the [[French First Empire]] |admin_center_type = [[Prefectures in France|Chef-lieu]] |admin_center = [[Namur]]<br />{{coord|50|28|N|4|52|E|display=inline}} |stat_year1 = 1814 |stat_pop1 = 180,655 |ref_pop1 = <ref name=e>{{cite book |last=Tulard|first=Jean & Marie-José|title=Napoléon et 40 millions de sujets: La centralisation et le premier empire|date=2014 |page=354|publisher=Tallandier |isbn=9791021001480|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kp5SCwAAQBAJ&q=sous%20pr%C3%A9fets%20de%20furnes%20van%20den%20busche&pg=PA291}}</ref> |era = |event_start = Creation |date_start = 1 October |event_end = [[Treaty of Paris (1814)|Treaty of Paris]], disestablished |date_end = 30 May |p1 = Austrian Netherlands |flag_p1 = Austrian Netherlands national flag - Marko de Haeck.png |p2 = Prince-Bishopric of Liège |flag_p2 = LuikVlag.svg |s1 = Province of Namur |flag_s1 = Flag_of_the_Netherlands.svg |today = {{Plainlist}} * [[Belgium]] {{Endplainlist}} }} '''Sambre-et-Meuse''' ({{IPA|fr|sɑ̃bʁ e møz|lang}}) was a [[departments of France|department]] of the [[French First Republic]] and [[French First Empire]] in present-day [[Belgium]]. It was named after the rivers [[Sambre]] and [[Meuse]]. It was created on 1 October 1795, when the [[Austrian Netherlands]] and the [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège]] were officially annexed by the French Republic.<ref>{{cite book |last=Duvergier |first=Jean-Baptiste |title=Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, réglemens et avis du Conseil d'état, t. 8|date=1835 |page=300 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEcUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA300}}</ref> Prior to this annexation, the territory included in the department had lain in the [[County of Namur]], the [[Prince-Bishopric of Liège]] and the Duchies of [[Duchy of Brabant|Brabant]] and [[Luxembourg]].
[[File:Departments of French Empire SambreMeuse 1811.svg|thumb|Sambre-et-Meuse within the northern French Empire (1811)]] [[File:Dep-sambre-et-meuse.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Map of the former Sambre-et-Meuse département]]
The [[Prefectures in France|Chef-lieu]] of the department was [[Namur]]. The department was subdivided into the following four [[arrondissement]]s and [[canton (administrative division)|cantons]]:
* [[Namur]]: [[Andenne]], [[Éghezée|Dhuy]], [[Fosses-la-Ville|Fosses]], [[Gembloux]] and [[Namur, Belgium|Namur]] (2 cantons). * [[Dinant]]: [[Beauraing]], [[Ciney]], [[Dinant]], [[Florennes]] and [[Walcourt]]. * [[Marche-en-Famenne|Marche]]: [[Durbuy]], [[Érezée]], [[Havelange]], [[La Roche-en-Ardenne|La Roche]], [[Marche-en-Famenne|Marche]] and [[Rochefort, Belgium|Rochefort]]. * [[Saint-Hubert, Belgium|Saint-Hubert]]: [[Gedinne]], [[Nassogne]], [[Saint-Hubert, Belgium|Saint-Hubert]] and [[Wellin]].
After [[Napoleon]] was defeated in 1814, the department was dissolved and later became part of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]]. Its territory is now divided between the Belgian provinces of [[Namur (province)|Namur]] and [[Luxembourg (province of Belgium)|Luxembourg]].
==Administration== ===Prefects=== The Prefect was the highest state representative in the department. {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |2 March 1800<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://francearchives.fr/fr/facomponent/cdf94f10a6f71c4f353186a650a8d992e4eb6c87|title=PÉRÈS DE LA GESSE, Emmanuel|last=Archives Nationales|website=francearchives.fr|access-date=21 June 2019}}</ref>||17 April 1806||'''Emmanuel Pérès de la Gesse''' |- valign="top" |3 January 1814<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://francearchives.fr/fr/facomponent/7e9c1832c51e514b9f80759cd0d5fffe7284dcf6|title=VILLENEUVE-BARGEMON, Jean Paul Alban de|last=Archives Nationales|website=francearchives.fr|access-date=21 June 2019}}</ref>||30 May 1814||'''[[Jean Paul Alban de Villeneuve-Bargemon]]''' |}
===Secretaries-General=== The Secretary-General was the deputy to the Prefect. {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |2 March 1800||?? ?? 1803||'''Corneille Joseph Bauchau''' |- valign="top" |?? ?? 1803||30 May 1814||'''L.A. Fallon''' |}
===Subprefects of Dinant=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |23 April 1800<ref name='e' />||7 April 1813||'''Louis Joseph Delevingne''' |- valign="top" |7 April 1813<ref name='e' />||30 May 1814||'''Claude François Prudhomme''' |}
===Subprefects of Marche=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |23 April 1800<ref name='e' />||24 May 1800||'''Dewal''' |- valign="top" |24 May 1800<ref name='e' />||30 May 1814||'''Jacques François Joseph Briart''' |}
===Subprefects of Namur=== The office of Subprefect of Namur was held by the Prefect until 1811. {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |14 January 1811<ref name='e' />||30 May 1814||'''Edouard Auxy''' |}
===Subprefects of Saint-Hubert=== {| class="wikitable" style="width: 70%;" ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term start ! align="left" style="width: 20%;" |Term end ! align="left" |Office holder
|- valign="top" |23 April 1800<ref name='e' />||30 May 1814||'''Louis Dieudonné Joseph Dewez''' |}
==References==
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{{Annexed departments of the French First Republic}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Former departments of France in Belgium]] [[Category:1795 establishments in France]] [[Category:History of Luxembourg (Belgium)]] [[Category:History of Namur Province]]