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5 unusual facts about Lescar


Galactorius of Lescar

The legend, told in the breviary of Lescar, printed in 1541, portrays Galactorius fighting the Visigoths at Mimizan at the head of an armed band and seeking help from Clovis.

Gaston II, Viscount of Béarn

Gaston granted the village of Asson to the abbey of Lescar, whose abbot was then García Lupus, his brother.

Jean-Henri Fondeville

Fondeville's God father was Jean-Henri de Salette, bishop of Lescar (city in which he is buried under the Latin inscription Patronus et poeta facundus).

Lescar Cathedral

Lescar Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption de Lescar) is a Roman Catholic cathedral, and a national monument of France, located in the town of Lescar.

Ostabat-Asme

It was the meeting point of 4 European ways to Santiago de Compostela, 3 of them joining together there, namely Paris - Tours - Poitiers - Dax, from Center - Europe linking to Limoges, from Genoa and Lyon through Moissac, the fourth one the Toulouse way, linking Central Italy with the Languedoc region, the Toulouse region and linking though the Béarn region, via Lescar-Oloron to Somport, Spain, and the Spanish Pyrénées.


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Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Lescar is popular in the area and the crowd in the tavern starts to get uneasy at the treatment of the good Doctor especially when it is revealed that the stranger is none other than Citizen Péret, a member of the Committee of Public Safety.

Alain I of Albret

Amanieu d'Albret († 1520), became bishop of Pamiers, of Comminges and of Lescar, then cardinal


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