Definitions
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- noun a former province of eastern France
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I guess mine is becoming natural too, since I'm learning while living here in the Franche-Comte.
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This Vatteville was the younger son of a Franche-Comte family; early in life he joined the Order of the Chartreux monks, and was ordained priest.
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Courtrai, Condo, Saint Guilain, Tournai, and Valenciennes, as a condition of retaining Franche-Comte; moreover, France was compelled to give up
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Franche-Comte_, which he was editing at that time.
Women in the Life of Balzac Juanita Helm Floyd
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In the midst of winter he took Franche-Comte, by restoring which at the peace of Aix-la -
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I replied, that my son was with his regiment at Besancon, lodging with M. de Levi, who commanded in Franche-Comte.
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He has two estates in Flanders, three in Burgundy, one in Franche-Comte, and another in Alsace.
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Staffarde in Piedmont (where Catinat gained a celebrated battle before being Marechal of France), of Saint-Claude in Franche-Comte, of Anchin in
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He repaired this disgrace by a second conquest, in person, of Franche-Comte, which this time was preserved by France.
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At the first conquest of the Franche-Comte, he intrigued so well with the
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