Franche-Comté

Zell's Condensed Dictionary · 1879 · p. 20

(franzh-kom'ta,) a former prov. of France, now divided into the depts. Haute-Saône, Doubs, and Jura. It was ceded to France by Spain, by the treaty of Nimeguen, Sept. 17, 1678. [s. 381]