title: Thoirette
text: # Thoirette
  
  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
  
  | 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.
  
  