Canton of Léman

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Canton du Léman"
conventional_long_name = Canton of Léman
common_name = Leman, Canton |
continent = Europe
region = Alps
country = Switzerland
subdivision = Canton
nation = Helvetic Republic
status_text = Canton of the Helvetic Republic|
year_start = 1798
year_end = 1803|
event_pre = Révolution Vaudoise: independence from Berne
date_pre = January 24 1798
event_start = Helv. Rep.
date_start = April 12 1798
event_end = Act of Mediation
date_end = February 19 1803|
p1 = Canton of Berne
image_p1 =
s1 = Vaud
image_s1 = |

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image_map_caption = The Helvetic Republic, as at the constitution of 12 April 1798, showing the canton of Léman in yellow, leftmost, to the north and west of Lake Geneva.|
capital = Lausanne
languages = French

Léman was the name of a canton of the Helvetic Republic from 1798 to 1803, corresponding to the territory of modern Vaud. As a former subject territory of Berne, Vaud had been independent for only four months in 1798 as the Lemanic Republic before it was incorporated in the centralist Helvetic Republic. Léman comprised all of the Vaud detached from Bernese occupation, apart from the Avenches and the Payerne which, after 16 October 1802, were annexed by the canton of Fribourg until the Napoleonic Act of Mediation the following year, when they were restored to the newly-established and newly-sovereign canton of Vaud.

The capital of the canton was Lausanne, with the "préfet"’s residence, the administrative chamber and the judicial tribunal. The canton was divided into 17 administrative districts, each with a "sous-préfet". Léman was also one of the five cantons — purely administrative subdivisions — of the Rhodanic Republic planned in March 1798 by the French general Guillaume Brune.

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