About 150 results for ‘Béarn’
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Béarn
Béarn is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, the principality of Bidache, as well as small parts of Gascony and Bigorre, it forms in the southwest the current département of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64). The capitals of Béarn were Beneharnum (until 841), Morlaàs (starting ca. 1100), Orthez (starting second half of 13th century), then Pau (beginning in the mid 15th century). Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces Soule and Lower Navarre to the west, by Gascony to the north, by Bigorre to the east, and by Spain to the south. The name Béarn comes from Beneharnum, the capital city of the Venarni people, destroyed by Vikings by 840. Today, the mainstays of the Béarn area are the petroleum business, the aerospace industry through the helicopter manufacturer Turbomeca, tourism and agriculture (much of which is corn grown for seed). Pau was the birthplace of Elf Aquitaine, which has now become a part of Total petroleum company. In Alexandre Dumas's The Three Musketeers series, the protagonist d'Artagnan was from Béarn (he mentions having attended his father's funeral there in the second book, Twenty Years After). That d'Artagnan is usually referred to as a Gascon is neither surprising nor incorrect, as Béarn is considered a part of Gascony. In the eastern part of the province are two small exclaves belonging to Bigorre. They are the result of how early Béarn grew to its traditional boundaries: some old lesser viscounties were added by marriage, and absorbed into Béarn: Oloron to the south/southwest ca. 1050, Montanérès in the east in 1085, and Dax in the west in 1194. When Montanérès was added, five communities or parishes (Villenave-Près-Béarn, Escaunets, Séron, Gardères, and Luquet) were not part of the dowry; they remained, or became, part of Bigorre. http://www. vic-montaner. com/en/our-territory/history. html However, they were absorbed into the département to which Béarn now belongs, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, rather than following Bigorre into Hautes-Pyrénées.
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Gan. Maison de Pierre de Marca
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- Béarn
- Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- House
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- Tower
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- 19th century
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Gan. Maison de Pierre de Marca
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- Béarn
- Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- House
- Landscape
- Tower
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- 19th century
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Entrée de la route de Pietat. La croix du capitaine
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- Béarn
- Christian cross
- Landscape
- Road
- Tree
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- 19th century
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Gan. Maison qu'habitait la Belle Corisande d'Andouins (d'...
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- Béarn
- Gan, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
- House
- Landscape
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- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Devéria
Ossaloise tenant son enfant dans les bras (titre factice)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Béarn
- Child
- Folk costume
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Devéria
Porteuses d'eau béarnaises
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- Portrayed subject:
- Béarn
- Folk costume
- Stairway
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Eugène Devéria
Béarnais à la fontaine
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- Portrayed subject:
- Béarn
- Folk costume
- Individual
- Man
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Ferme béarnaise (titre factice)
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- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Béarn
- Dairy cattle
- Farm
- Landscape
- Plain
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Le Château de Pau
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- Portrayed subject:
- Béarn
- Château
- Deciduous
- Landscape
- Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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- Date:
- 19th century
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