Franche-Comté is a cultural and historical region of eastern France. It is composed of the modern departments of Doubs, Jura, Haute-Saône and the Territoire de Belfort. In 2016, its population was 1,180,397.
Doubs is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France. Named after the Doubs River, it had a population of 538,549 in 2016. Its prefecture is Besançon and subprefectures are Montbéliard and Pontarlier.
Besançon is the prefecture of the department of Doubs in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The city is located in Eastern France, close to the Jura Mountains and the border with Switzerland.
Noironte is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Buffard is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
École-Valentin is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Éternoz is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Arcey is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Planoise is an urban area in the western part of Besançon, France, built in the 1960s between the hill of Planoise and the district of Hauts-de-Chazal. It is the most populous district of Besançon, with 21,000 inhabitants. Its inhabitants are called Planoisiens and Planoisiennes.
Jean-Louis Fousseret is a French politician. A member of La République En Marche!, Fousseret was Governor of the Canton of Besançon-Planoise from 1988 to 2001 and a Member of Parliament of the district of Doubs from 1997 to 2002. He was mayor of Besançon and president of Grand Besançon Métropole from 2001 to 2020.
Planoise is a new urban zone created at the end of the 1960s because of the high demography of the city (Besançon). Before the buildings, there were a lot of farms and some monuments. This hamlet was transformed into a real little town within a decade.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Rouen, France.
The Battle of Besançon was a sectarian conflict between the Protestants and Catholics in the French city of Besançon in the region of Franche-Comté. Prior to the battle, the Huguenots, accused of heresy, had been expelled from the city and fled to the County of Montbéliard and Switzerland; the outcasts formed an army and planned an attempt to retake Besançon and turn the city into a stronghold of the Protestant Reformation. By the time the armed Protestants had reached the city of Besançon however, their army had dwindled because of several mishaps. Nonetheless, the battle began and raged for several hours; the outcome was an overwhelming Catholic victory. The majority of the Protestant army managed to escape, but those who were captured were hanged as traitors. For over two centuries after the battle, Protestantism in Besançon was repressed.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté is a region in Eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections of December 2015, electing 100 members to the Regional Council of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dijon, France.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Orléans, France.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Limoges, France.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Caen, France.
Charles-Émilien Thuriet was a 19th–20th-century French writer and poet.
Radio BIP is a French local and associative FM broadcasting station, active in Besançon and Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. The acronym BIP stands for Bisontine, Indépendante et Populaire, meaning "Bisontine, independent and popular". After originally operating as a pirate radio station from 1977 to 1978, it was refounded in 1981 as a "free radio". In 2022 she still characterized by a total independence, the refusal of advertisement, and an important spot for politics and associations. Since 2015, her staff developps video and written channels with Média 25. She become a reference of social movement and underground culture, at the beginning of many cases during El Khomri law or Yellow vests.
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