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2 unusual facts about Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez


Cholet Basket

It is also one of the only six European clubs to have provided two players to the same NBA draft in 2009, beside Real Madrid (2005), Joventut Badalona (2009), Fenerbahçe Ülker (2008), KK Partizan (2002) and Pau-Ortez (2003).

Claude Bergeaud

From 2008 to 2010, he was the director general of the club Pau-Orthez.


Amendeuix-Oneix

Amendeuix-Oneix is located some 50 km east by south-east of Bayonne and 40 km south-west of Orthez in the Mixe country in the former Basque province of Lower Navarre.

Dyer baronets

The ninth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army and served in the Peninsular War, where he was present at Badajoz, Vitoria, San Sebastian, the Pyrenees, Nive, Orthez and Toulouse.

Gaston IV, Viscount of Béarn

During his rule, the borders of Béarn were established more definitively; he defeated the viscount of Dax, and took control of Orthez, Mixe, and Ostabaret by 1105.

Henri Spondanus

After studying humanities at the Calvinist college of Orthez, he accompanied the royal ambassador to Scotland and, upon his return, took up the study of jurisprudence.

Moira Lister

In 1951, Moira Lister married Jacques de Gachassin-Lafite Vicomte d’Orthez, a French officer of the Spahis, owner of a champagne vineyard and hero of the Rif War; they had two daughters, Chantal and Christobel.

Nicasio Álvarez de Cienfuegos

He was successively editor of the Gaceta and Mercurio, and was condemned to death for having published an article against Napoleon; on the petition of his friends, he was spared and deported to France; he died at Orthez early in the following year.

Omar Thomas

During the summer of 2008 signed an important agreement with the French club Pau-Orthez, but was cut after three games, then he go back in Italy and then agreeing with Napoli, which debuted in Serie A at the end of the season he recording an average of 11.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.

Patrick Delcroix

Patrick Delcroix, born February 8, 1963, in Pau/France, dancer and choreographer, was educated at the Centre International de Danse Rosella Hightower in Cannes and the Ecole de danse Colette Soriano in Orthez, France.

Souarata Cissé

Souarata Cissé (born January 16, 1986 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French basketball player who played for French Pro A league clubs Pau-Orthez, Paris, Rouen and Hyères-Toulon Var Basket.

Tarbelli

Their capital city was Aquae Tarbellicae, present-day Dax, with Orthez being also an important Tarbelli city.


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