Doubs (; Arpitan: Dubs ) is a department in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France named after the Doubs River.

Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: Hiôta-Sona ) is a French department of the Franche-Comté ( Franche-Comtât ) région, named after the Saône River.

Montbéliard (; archaic ) is a city in the Doubs department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, about 13km from the border with Switzerland.

It cites the Provençal forms poutingo " bad stew " and poutité " hodgepodge " or " crushed fruit or foods "; poutringo " mixture of various things " in Languedocien ; and poutringue, potringa " bad stew " in Franche-Comté as possibly related to poutine.

Besançon ( French and Arpitan: ; archaic, ), is the capital and principal city of the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.

# the Pays de salines ( Franche-Comté, Alsace and Lorraine ), in which the tax was levied on the salt extracted from the salt marshes, and prices for a minot varying from 15 livres ( Franche-Comté ) to between 12 and 36 livres in the numerous fiscal divisions of the Alsace-Lorraine ;

The policy of repression which in this capacity he pursued during the next five years secured for him many tangible rewards: in 1560 he was elevated to the archepiscopal see of Mechelen, and in 1561 he became a cardinal ; but the growing hostility of a people whose religious convictions he had set himself to oppose ultimately made it impossible for him to continue in the Netherlands ; and on the advice of his royal master he retired to Franche-Comté in March 1564.

Dole was the capital of Franche-Comté until Louis XIV conquered the region ; he shifted the parlement from Dole to Besançon.

Against the better judgement of Anne and Peter, Charles chose to renounce his unconsummated marriage to Margaret of Austria, and instead marry Anne, Duchess of Brittany ; he then went against them by returning Margaret's dowry – Artois and Franche-Comté – to her brother, Philip the Handsome.

The sections relating to Burgundy and Franche-Comté were published by Henri Bouchot ( 1875-1876 ): those relating to the généralité of Limoges, by Moreau de Pravieux ( 1895 ) ; and those for the election of Reims, by P. Cosset ( 1903 ).

Historically, Jura belonged to the Free County of Burgundy, known in French as the Franche-Comté.

He was born at Besançon, now in France, then a self governing Imperial Free City surrounded by the Imperial territory of the Franche-Comté.

It was created from part of the former province of Franche-Comté.

It was created from part of the former province of Franche-Comté.

The department was created in the early years of the French Revolution through the application of a law dated 22 December 1789, from part of the former province of Franche-Comté.

The Dampierre legacy further comprised the French counties of Rethel in northern Champagne and Nevers west of Burgundy proper, both held by Philip's younger son Philip II from 1407, as well as the County of Burgundy ( Franche-Comté ) east of it, an Imperial fief which had been part of the former Kingdom of Arles.

By 1680 the disputed County of Montbéliard ( lying between Franche-Comté and Alsace ) had been separated from the Duchy of Württemberg, and by August Louis XIV had secured the whole of Alsace with the exception of Strasbourg.

Margaret, Dowager Countess of Flanders, Philip's grandaunt, had inherited Artois and Franche-Comté ( County Palatine of Burgundy ) as the next heir: she was younger sister of Philip's paternal grandmother Joan Countess of Artois and Burgundy, both daughters of Joan of Chalon, Artois, and Burgundy, from her marriage with King Philip V of France.

In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, and numerous border provinces ( such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté, Savoy, Bresse, Bugey, Gex, Nice, Provence, and Brittany ) were autonomous or foreign-held ( as by England ); there were also foreign enclaves, like the Comtat Venaissin.

* 8 Counts and Countesses of Burgundy ( Franche-Comté ) ( 1329 – 1382, 1383 – 1482 )

Pike, perch, river crabs, snails, poultry from Bresse, Charolais beef or game, redcurrants, blackcurrants, honey cake, Chaource and Epoisses cheese are all specialties of the local cuisine of both Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

France annexed the duchy, although the part of Burgundy that formed Franche-Comté was later given to Philip I of Castile in 1493.

Guy, with relatives both in Burgundy and the Franche-Comté ( that is, within the Emperor's jurisdiction and bordering it ) led the pro-Papal opposition at the synod called at the Lateran in 1112.

This Kingdom of Burgundy, which under Conrad's successors would become known as the Kingdom of Arles, corresponded to most of the southeastern quarter of modern France and included western Switzerland, the Franche-Comté and Dauphiné.

However, the old county of Burgundy ( later called province of Franche-Comté ) is not included inside the Burgundy region, but it makes up the Franche-Comté region.

It is about 325 km ( 215 mi ) east of the national capital of Paris, 100 km ( 60 mi ) east of Dijon in Burgundy, 125 km ( 75 mi ) northwest of Lausanne in Switzerland, and 100 km ( 60 mi ) southwest of Belfort in Franche-Comté.

The diocese covered Champagne, the Duchy of Burgundy and Franche-Comté, and the bishops gained the right to coin money in the 9th century and to name the military governor of the city in 927.

King Louis XI of France seized the opportunity afforded by his rival's defeat and death to attempt take possession of the Duchy of Burgundy proper, and also of Franche-Comté, Picardy and Artois.

Both the Latin form ( Comes ) palatinus and the French ( comte ) palatin have been used as part of the full title of Dukes of Burgundy ( a branch of the French royal dynasty ) to render their rare German title Freigraf, which was the style of a ( later lost ) bordering principality, the allodial countship of Burgundy ( Freigrafschaft Burgund in German ) which came to be known as Franche-Comté.

Little is known of his early years, but de Molay was probably born in Molay, Haute-Saône, in the county of Burgundy, at the time a territory ruled by Otto III as part of the Holy Roman Empire, and in modern times in the area of Franche-Comté, northeastern France.

To the north are the French regions of Bourgogne ( Burgundy ) and Franche-Comté, to the west it borders the region Auvergne, to the south it borders Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur.

As part of the Duchy of Burgundy, Arbois endured seven sieges, including sackings by Charles I d ' Amboise ( in 1479 while he was governor of Franche-Comté under Louis XI ), Henry IV ( when the town held out for three weeks against the King's 25, 000 troops ), and Louis XIV.

In addition to Picardy, she also polled over 20 % in ten other regions: Corsica ( 24. 39 %, 39, 209 votes ), Champagne-Ardenne ( 23. 91 %, 172, 632 votes ), Provence-Alpes-Côte d ' Azur ( 23. 87 %, 650, 336 votes ), Lorraine ( 23. 66 %, 308, 392 votes ), Languedoc-Roussillon ( 23. 45 %, 363, 880 votes ), Nord-Pas-de-Calais ( 23. 29 %, 517, 115 votes ), Alsace ( 22. 12 %, 219, 252 votes ), Franche-Comté ( 21. 29 %, 141, 972 votes ), Burgundy ( 20. 36 %, 191, 148 votes ), Upper Normandy ( 20. 15 %, 207, 520 votes ).

Luxeuil Abbey was one of the oldest and best-known monasteries in Burgundy, located in the " département " of Haute-Saône in Franche-Comté, France.

Philip became duke of Burgundy, count of Flanders, Artois and Franche-Comté when his father was assassinated in 1419.

The territories attached to this hereditary office started from those held by the Hohenstaufens in Franconia and Rhineland ( other branches of the Hohenstaufens received Swabian lands, Franche-Comté, and so forth ).

Charles ' forces re-captured both Milan and Franche-Comté from France after the decisive Habsburg victory at the Battle of Pavia in 1525, which pushed Francis to form the Franco-Ottoman alliance.

or this inscription from Luxeuil-les-Bains in Franche-Comté:

The Habsburg Spanish army of about 27, 000 men, advanced from Flanders, through the Ardennes, and into northern France to relieve French pressure on the Franche-Comté and Catalonia.

Most notably, the French acquired the Franche-Comté and various territories in the Southern Netherlands from the Spanish.

* Emmental français est-central from Franche-Comté, France, also has PGI status

Munster or Munster-géromé, is a strong tasting, soft cheese made mainly from milk from the Vosges, between Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté in France.

After his graduation from college, Febvre taught at a provincial lycée, where he worked on his thesis on Philip II of Spain and the Franche-Comté.

The town of Corbie grew up round Corbie Abbey, founded in 657 or 660 by the queen regent Bathilde, with a founding community of monks from Luxeuil Abbey in the Franche-Comté.

Comté ( also called Gruyère de Comté ) ( is a French cheese made from unpasteurized cow's milk in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France.