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2. Béarn - Wikipedia

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   The people of Bearn were reluctant to follow a policy favourable to the kings of France, they felt that they belonged to the Gascon community and saw the kingdom of France as a foreign land. It was not until Gaston III, known as Fébus, that a new policy appeared: to make Bearn a sovereign and neutral country.

3. Viscounty of Béarn - Wikipedia

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   The Viscounty, later Principality of Béarn (Gascon: Bearn or Biarn), was a medieval lordship in the far south of France, part of the Duchy of Gascony from the late ninth century. In 1347, the viscount declared Béarn an independent principality without feudal obligations.

4. Category:Béarn - Wikipedia

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5. Estates of Béarn - Wikipedia

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   The Estates of Béarn are the former Provincial Estates of Béarn.It was formed following the death of Gaston III/X of Foix-Béarn, alias Gaston Phoebus, [1] on 1 August 1391, as a sort of Extraordinary Assembly, regrouping the representatives of the various courts of Béarn, most notably those of the "Cour des Communautés" and of the "fr:Cour majour" that had been disbanded by Gaston Phoebus.

6. Viscounts of Béarn - Wikipedia

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   The viscounts of Béarn (Basque: Bearno, Gascon: Bearn or Biarn) were the rulers of the viscounty of Béarn, 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 , as well as small parts of Gascony , it forms the current département ...

7. Salies-de-Béarn - Wikipedia

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   During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone. Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Béarn, relieved of the invader ...