Franche-Comté

American  

[frahnsh-kawn-tey] / frɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃ˈteɪ /

noun

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

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Franche-Comté British  

/ frɑ̃ʃkɔ̃te /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Investigators then looked at other serious adverse events dating back to 2008, involving patients aged four to 89, at the two big healthcare centres he had worked at in Besançon - the Franche-Comté Polyclinic and the Saint-Vincent Clinic.

From BBC

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

From BBC

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

But Hamlin, now a high-pressure experimentalist at the University of Florida, and Simon Kimber, a physicist most recently at the University Burgundy Franche-Comté, have gone through the thesis by hand and say they have discovered more widespread examples of copying.

From Science Magazine

Carried out by teams of researchers from Berlin, Bath and Franche-Comté in eastern France, it found that out-and-proud omnivores, those who eat meat without any restrictions, are for the first time a minority in Germany.

From The Guardian