Sègre was a former département of the First French Empire

First French Empire

The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...

 in present day Spain

Spain

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, named after the Segre river. It was created on 26 January 1812 on Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

's annexation by the French Empire. Its subprefectures were Talarn

Talarn

Talarn is a municipality in the comarca of the Pallars Jussà in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the centre of the Tremp basin, on the Noguera Pallaresa river below the Sant Antoni reservoir. It is the site of a hydroelectric power station and of a training school of the Spanish army...

, Solsona

Solsona

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 and Cervera

Cervera

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. Its prefecture was Puigcerda

Puigcerdà

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 and had only one holder, Jean Louis Rieul de Viefville des Essarts, from February 1812 to 1813.

In March 1813 it was merged with the department of Ter

Ter (department)

Ter was a former département of the First French Empire in present day Spain, named after the Ter river. It was created on 26 January 1812 on Catalonia's annexation by the French Empire. Its subprefectures were Vic and Figueres...

 into the department of Ter-et-Sègre

Sègre-Ter

Sègre-Ter was a department of France created in Spain on 7 March 1813 by merging the departments of Sègre and Ter. This merger was established by decree but never published in the Bulletin des lois, leaving its judicial status uncertain. The department was officially suppressed on 10 March 1814.-...

. This merger was established by decree but never published in the Bulletin des lois

Bulletin des lois

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, nor endorsed by any senatorial decree, leaving its legal status uncertain.

In 1814 the French left the Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

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, having occupied it since 1807. The departments disappeared.