Franche Comté, province of E. France, in the Rhone basin, corresponded to the former County of Burgundy, and comprised Doubs, Haute-Saône, and Jura departments. Capital, Besançon.
Franche Comté
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 790
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