Editing Franche-Comté (section)

===Province of the Kingdom of France===
{{Infobox former subdivision
|common_name            = Franche-Comté
|subdivision            = Government
|nation                 = Kingdom of France
|year_start             = 1668/1674
|year_end               = 1790
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|image_flag             = Flag of Franche-Comté.svg
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|flag                   = <!-- Link target under flag image. Default: Flag of {{{common_name}}} -->
|image_coat             = Blason fr Franche-Comté.svg
|symbol_type            = <!-- Displayed text for link under symbol. Default "Coat of arms" -->
|symbol                 = <!-- Link target under symbol image. Default: Coat of arms of {{{common_name}}} -->
|image_map              = Franche-Comte in France (1789).svg
|image_map_caption      = 
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|p1                     = County of Burgundy
|flag_p1                = Arms of County of Burgundy.svg
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|s1                     = Jura (department)
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|s2                     = Haute-Saône
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|s3                     = Doubs
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|image_s3               = <!-- Use: [[Image:Sin escudo.svg|20px|Image missing]] -->
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}}
Franche-Comté was captured by France in 1668, but returned to [[Spain]] under the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668)|Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]]. It was conquered a second time in 1674, and finally was ceded to France in the [[Treaty of Nijmegen]] (1678), leaving the Holy Roman Empire as a result.{{sfn|Dee|2009|p=}} 

Enclaves such as [[Montbéliard]] remained outside French control.

[[File:1771 Bonne Map of Burgundy, Franche-Comté, and Lyonnais, France - Geographicus - Bourgogne-bonne-1771.jpg|thumb|upright|1771 map of Burgundy, Franche-Comté and Lyonnais by [[Rigobert Bonne]]]]
The Franche-Comté was one of the last parts of France to have [[serfdom]]. In 1784, half of the population consisted of serfs, accounting for 400,000 out of the 1&nbsp;million French serfs. Landowners took one-twelfth of the sale's price if a serf (''mainmortable'') wanted to sell up. Serfs were not forced to stay on the land, but the lord could claim ''droit de suite'', whereby a peasant who died away from his holding left it to the lord, even if he had heirs. A runaway serf's land was forfeit after ten years. [[Louis XVI]] issued a decree banning these practices on 8 August 1779, but the [[Parlement of Besançon]] blocked this until 1787.