Péry is part of the municipality of Péry-La Heutte in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.

He incorporated it into the seigniory of Erguel and gave the village to the Lords of Péry who ruled from Châtillon Castle, now a ruin, on a nearby hill.

Beginning in the 14th century the feudal levies from Péry were part of the Erguel army under the command of Biel.

During the mid 14th century, the Prince-Bishop of Basel Johann II von Munsingen, granted Rondchâtel to his brother Conrad, who was an ecclesiastical bailiff of Biel in 1340–65.

Starting at the end of the 14th century, Rondchâtel fief was owned by the de Nans and d'Orsans families out of Franche-Comté.

After Napoleon's defeat and the Congress of Vienna, Péry was assigned to the Canton of Bern in 1815.

[1] The Prince-Bishop of Basel, Johann Franz von Schönau-Zell (Bishop 1651-1656), had a blast furnace built at La Reuchenette in 1654.

After the French invasion, it was declared a national treasure and the feudal ownership was abolished.

[3] The Biel-Les Convers railway opened in 1874 and encouraged industrial and population growth.

The lime and cement factory in Rondchâtel (1874), the wood pulp plant at Biberist (1882) and a branch of the Rondchâtel cement factory in La Reuchenette (today Ciments Vigier SA) all contributed to the prosperity of the municipality.

The watch manufacturer Dreyfus Frères SA of Biel opened a branch company in 1903 in Péry.

The building was converted in 1934 into a typewriter ribbon, stencils and carbon paper factory under the name Carfa SA.

[6] It lies on the eastern end of the Saint-Imier valley and includes the villages of Rondchâtel and La Reuchenette.

On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.

[7] The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules a Guidon Argent staffed Or.

[5] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,063 or 79.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (205 or 15.4%) and Italian is the third (30 or 2.2%).

The historical population is given in the following chart:[1][12] The entire Taubenloch canyon is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the tertiary sector; 19 or 18.4% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 32 or 31.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 12 or 11.7% were in a hotel or restaurant, 4 or 3.9% were technical professionals or scientists, 11 or 10.7% were in education and 4 or 3.9% were in health care.

This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.

Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.