French Flanders
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French Flanders (in Dutch Frans-Vlaanderen, in French la Flandre française) is the part of the feudal Countship of Flanders which was politically separated from the main of the region Flanders (now in Belgium) to become a province of the kingdom of France, comprising parts of the Spanish Netherlands which were ceded to France in successive treaties (1659, 1668, and 1678). The bulk became the modern administrative département Nord (department), except the western parts separated in 1237 as the Countship of Artois and now part of the neighbouring Pas-de-Calais, and Hainault.
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- Nouveau petit Larousse illustré, 1952.
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