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Porrentruy
Porrentruy is a town in the canton of Jura in north-western Switzerland, near the French border. After the Reformation reached Basel, the prince-bishops of Basel made its castle their residence until the French Revolution. In 1792 the short-lived Rauracian Republic was proclaimed there.
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