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Thoirette is a former
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the Jura department in the
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (; , sometimes abbreviated BFC; Arpitan: ''Borgogne-Franche-Comtât'') is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region ...
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of eastern
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. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Thoirette-Coisia.Arrêté préfectoral
19 December 2016


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Personalities

Thoirette is the birthplace of the anatomist
Xavier Bichat Marie François Xavier Bichat (; ; 14 November 1771 – 22 July 1802) was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues ...
(1771–1802), whose house still exists in the older part of town.


See also

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Communes of the Jura department The following is a list of the 494 communes of the Jura department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Former communes of Jura (department) {{JuraFR-geo-stub