[The Franche-Comté conquered four the second time, 1674] La Franche Comté conquise pour la seconde fois, 1674.
Magdalena Horthemels, Cochin sculpsit. à Paris chez Cochin rue S. Jacques au Mescenas [c.1750] Engraving, platemark 295 x 400mm (11½ x 15¾"), with very large margins. Paper time stained. The Franche-Comté (Free County), now in eastern France, was passed to the Spanish when Emperor Charles V inherited the Spanish throne in 1516. It was captured by France in 1668 but returned to Spain in the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. This print shows the battle in 1674 which resulted in France taking the territory for the second time. From the Library of Pitsligo
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