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Besançon — Capital of the Franche-Comté, in a loop of the Doubs
A town in the loop of the Doubs, a stronghold fortified by Vauban, where in 1802 the son of a garrisoned battalion commander was born — « Besançon, old Spanish town », as he later wrote it. (Editorial synthesis)
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