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Mont-tonnerre




Mont-Tonnerre is the name of a Département of the First French Empire in present Germany . It is named after the hill Donnersberg , the highest point in the Rhenish Palatinate . It was formed in 1798 , when the left bank of the Rhine was annexed by France. Its territory is part of the present German lands Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland . Its capital was Mainz . The département was subdivided into the following Arrondissement s and Cantons :


After Napoleon was defeated in 1814 , the département was divided between Bavaria ( Palatinate ) and Hesse (around Mainz ).