Republic of Bouillon
Republic of Bouillon République bouillonnaise | |||||||||
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| 1794–1795 | |||||||||
The predecessor Duchy of Bouillon as at 1787, shown with the Austrian Netherlands (light grey) and Liège and Stavelot-Malmedy (dark grey) | |||||||||
| Status | Client state of France | ||||||||
| Capital | Bouillon | ||||||||
| Government | Unknown | ||||||||
| Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||
| 26 May 1790 | |||||||||
| 23 March/1 May 1794 | |||||||||
| 19 November 1792 | |||||||||
| 7 February 1794 | |||||||||
• Republic maybe proclaimed | 24 April 1794 | ||||||||
• Annexed to France | 26 October 1795 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Belgium | ||||||||
The Republic of Bouillon was perhaps a short-lived French client republic, around the city of Bouillon in present-day Belgium, based on the Duchy of Bouillon, which had existed between France and the Austrian Netherlands since the 15th century. Reforms, sponsored by the duke, abolishing manorialism and feudalism and establishing a constitutional basis for the monarchy did not prevent what many sources describe as the proclamation of a republic in April 1794. The claimed republic was short-lived, however, as the territory was annexed by the French First Republic 18 months later. However, there is no clear source about the existence of this republic. In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, the duchy was absorbed into the promoted Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, becoming a part of Belgium when that nation was founded in the 1830s.