Thoirette

Thoirette
Part of Thoirette-Coisia
Bridge over the Ain
Location of Thoirette
Thoirette Thoirette
Coordinates: 46°16′19″N 5°32′00″E
Country	France
Region	Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
Department	Jura
Arrondissement	Lons-le-Saunier
Canton	Moirans-en-Montagne
Commune	Thoirette-Coisia
Area 1	8.77 km2 (3.39 sq mi)
Population  (2019)	680
• Density	78/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	39240
Elevation	275–635 m (902–2,083 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Thoirette is a former commune in the Jura department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of eastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Thoirette-Coisia.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 155 —     1806 280 +80.6% 1821 285 +1.8% 1831 580 +103.5% 1841 586 +1.0% 1851 595 +1.5% 1861 563 −5.4% 1872 549 −2.5% 1881 527 −4.0% 1891 472 −10.4% 1901 435 −7.8% 1911 377 −13.3%

Year Pop. ±% 1921 384 +1.9% 1931 404 +5.2% 1946 294 −27.2% 1954 238 −19.0% 1962 205 −13.9% 1968 223 +8.8% 1975 234 +4.9% 1982 291 +24.4% 1990 427 +46.7% 1999 543 +27.2% 2008 646 +19.0% 2013 694 +7.4%

Personalities

Thoirette is the birthplace of the anatomist Xavier Bichat (1771–1802), whose house still exists in the older part of town.

See also

• Communes of the Jura department