Franche-Comté

American

[frahnsh-kawn-tey] / frɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃ˈteɪ /

noun

a former province in E France: once a part of Burgundy.

Franche-Comté British

/ frɑ̃ʃkɔ̃te /

noun

a region of E France, covering the Jura and the low country east of the Saône: part of the Kingdom of Burgundy (6th century _ad –1137); autonomous as the Free County of Burgundy (1137–1384); under Burgundian rule again (1384–1477) and Hapsburg rule (1493–1674); annexed by France (1678)

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In 2009, three patients with no history of heart disease had to be resuscitated at the Franche-Comté Polyclinic during minor operations.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2025

One of them, Simon Kimber, a physicist then at the University of Burgundy Franche-Comté in France, was immediately concerned and requested a retraction.

From Scientific American • Jul. 26, 2023

France gained several towns and a region called Franche-Comté.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

Before Adela was seven years old, she had been carried from Franche-Comté into the Bourbonnais, thence into Auvergne, and thence to Paris.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

Sainte-Marie Franche-Comté, France A creamy concoction worthy of its saintly name.

From The Complete Book of Cheese by Brown, Robert Carlton

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