Editing Cantal (section)

== History ==
The area of Cantal was historically part of the [[Haute-Auvergne]] (''{{lang|fr|Haute-Auvergne}}'').{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}}{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}}

Cantal is one of the original 83 departments created during the [[French Revolution]] on 4 March 1790.{{citation needed|date=June 2016}} Prior to the [[First World War]], it comprised parts of the XIII. Army Corps military region and the [[Clermont-Ferrand]] educational division (''{{lang|fr|académie}}'').{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}}

=== Diocese of Cantal ===
After the 1790 [[Constitution Civile du Clergé]], the [[Diocese of Saint-Flour]] in Cantal (whose bishop refused to swear the oath required by the [[Civil Constitution of the Clergy]], constituting a [[schism from Rome]]) was among the almost half of the French sees being abolished to realign the new bishoprics to coincide with the new departments, such as Cantal, where outsider parish priest Anne-Alexandre-Marie Thibault was elected Bishop. It was formally abolished in turn after the Napoleonic [[Concordat of 1801]] (Thibault refusing to resign), in favor of the reinstated bishopric of Saint Poul, but actually retained the departemental borders.