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Franche-ComtéRegion of eastern France; area 16,202 sq km/6,256 sq mi; population (1999 est) 1,117,100. Its administrative centre is Besançon, and it includes the départements of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône, and Territoire de Belfort (see Belfort, Territoire de). About 40% of the land is forested, especially in the mountainous Jura, where there is dairying, farming, and forestry; elsewhere there are engineering, automobile, and plastics industries. Besançon is the region's largest city and traditional centre for manufacturing (watches and precision instruments). Other chief towns include Montbéliard, the site of an automobile production complex, Lons-le-Saulier, Vesoul, Pontarlier, and Dôle, which had been capital of the historic region until 1676. HistoryOnce independent and ruled by its own count, it was disputed by France, Burgundy, Austria, and Spain from the 9th century until it became a French province under the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.
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| University Hospital of Besancon, Besangon, France; and ([dagger]) University of Franche-Comte, Besangon, France 60) This "Flemish writer" is Jean-Jacques Chifflet (1588-1673), originally from the Franche-Comte, and the official doctor of the Spanish archduchess Isabelle-Claire Eugenie and the Spanish king Philip IV. After the failure of the Restoration, which tried to recreate a rural landlord class based on local power, inspired from the English gentry, noble families of Franche-Comte reconverted their aspirations with the help of public resources. |
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