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.

After the French Revolution began in 1789, de Bouillé retained control of the Three Bishoprics, and was also given military command of Alsace and Franche-Comté in 1790.

He was also elected as regional counsellor of the Picardie region ( 1986 – 1987 ) and then of the Franche-Comté ( 1992 – 1998 ).

General de Condé had started the invasion on 4 February, and on 7 February took Besançon, which also lay in Franche-Comté.

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 ).

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

Comtoise clocks, also known as Morbier clocks or Morez clocks, are a style of longcase clock made in the French region Franche-Comté ( whence their name ).

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.

Louis XIV also had to return the province of 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.

Eight départements are now entitled to produce the cheese, each of which surrounds Franche-Comté, and also including parts of Rhône-Alpes.

La Franche-Comté, consisting of 4 departments, is also subdivided into 16 pays:

It also borders the French regions of Franche-Comté, Alsace, and Champagne-Ardenne.

At this time the city became the administrative centre for Franche-Comté, with the Parlement of Besançon, replacing Dole.

When Charles retired in 1556, Ferdinand became his de facto successor as Holy Roman Emperor, and de jure in 1558, while Spain, the Spanish Empire, Naples, Sicily, Milan, the Netherlands, and Franche-Comté went to Philip, son of Charles.

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.

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

Vagrancy became a serious problem in the countryside and in some areas, such as the Franche-Comté in late 1788, peasants had gathered to take collective actions against the seigneurs.

After the early death of her brother Philip of Spain, in November 1506 she became the only woman elected as its ruler by the representative assembly of Franche-Comté ( her title was confirmed in 1509 ).

As a teenager he became a teacher of the instrument and appeared in many concerts in the Franche-Comté.

The Duchy of Burgundy and several other Burgundian lands then became part of France, while the Burgundian Netherlands and the Franche-Comté were inherited by Charles's daughter Mary of Burgundy, and eventually passed to the House of Habsburg upon her death because of her marriage to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Some of the Netherland provinces were hostile to Maximilian, and they signed a treaty with Louis XI in 1482 that forced Maximilian to give up Franche-Comté and Artois to the French crown.

In 1506, Charles inherited his father's Burgundian territories, most notably the Low Countries and Franche-Comté, most of which were fiefs of the German empire, except his birthplace of Flanders which was still a French fief, a last remnant of what had been a powerful player in the Hundred Years ' War.

Doubs is part of the current region of Franche-Comté and is surrounded by the French departments of Jura, Haute-Saône, and Territoire de Belfort, and the Swiss cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel, and Jura.

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

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

Jura is one of four departments of the Franche-Comté region and is surrounded by the French departments of Doubs, Haute-Saône, Côte-d ' Or, Saône-et-Loire, and Ain, as well as the Swiss canton of Vaud on the east.

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

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.

Louis was swift to re-engage, and forced Maximilian to agree to the Treaty of Arras ( 1482 ) by which Franche-Comté and Artois passed for a time to French rule, only to be regained by the Treaty of Senlis ( 1493 ), which established peace in the Low Countries.

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.

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.

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.

Condé conquered the Franche-Comté during the War of Devolution and led the French armies in the Franco-Dutch War together with Turenne.

The War of Devolution ( 1667 – 68 ) saw Louis XIV's French armies overrun the Habsburg-controlled Spanish Netherlands and the Franche-Comté, but forced to give most of it back by a Triple Alliance of England, Sweden, and the Dutch Republic in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

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

* 1805 – Maison Pernod Fils ( simply known as Pernod Fils ) was founded in Pontarlier, Franche-Comté in eastern France by Henri-Louis Pernod, a French distiller of Francophone Swiss origin, and started the production of the anise-flavored liquor known as absinthe.

Pierre Vernier ( 19 August 1580 at Ornans, Franche-Comté, Spanish Habsburgs ( now France ) – 14 September 1637 same location ) was a French mathematician and instrument inventor.

During this period, France expanded to nearly its modern territorial extent through the acquisition of Picardy, Burgundy, Anjou, Maine, Provence, Brittany, Franche-Comté, French Flanders, Navarre, Roussillon, the Duchy of Lorraine, Alsace and Corsica.

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.

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

Born Paul Bernard into a Jewish family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, he was the son of an architect.

Franche-Comté was captured by France in 1668 but returned under the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

Franche-Comté was one of the last parts of France to have serfdom.

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

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

He was born at Les Pontets, Franche-Comté, département of Doubs.

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.

In that year he proposed to Louvois, the minister of war, a plan for seizing Franche-Comté, the execution of which was entrusted to him and successfully carried out.

The machinery needed to determine these territorial ambiguities was already in place through the medium of the Parlements at Metz ( technically the only ' Chamber of Reunion '), Besançon, and a superior court at Breisach, dealing respectively with Lorraine, Franche-Comté, and Alsace.

Henry VII was given cash, Ferdinand II of Aragon was given Roussillon and Maximillian was given Artois and Franche-Comté.

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.

But after Louis XIV had secured the Franche-Comté as a bargaining counter, the immediate question was whether he should bow to the demands of the triple alliance, or whether he should continue the war.

From 2 – 24 February 1668 he was once again in the field with the army of Prince Condé in the Franche-Comté.

France gained some territory in Flanders, but nearly all of the Spanish Netherlands, as well as the Franche-Comté, was returned to Spain.

# 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 ;