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unusual facts about Northern Basque Country



Andrée de Jongh

De Jongh herself was betrayed and captured at a farmhouse in Urrugne, in the French Basque country, in January 1943 - the last stop on the escape line before the passage over the Pyrenees - during her 33rd journey to Spain.

Bigorre

Before the French Revolution, Bigorre was made part of the gouvernement (military area) of Guienne-Gascony, whereas for general matters it depended from the généralité of Auch like the rest of Gascony (although for a certain period of time it depended from the généralité of Pau, like Béarn, Nébouzan, County of Foix, and the Basque provinces).

Edmond Rostand

In the 1900s, Rostand came to live in the Villa Arnaga in Cambo-les-Bains in the French Basque Country looking for a cure for his pleurisy.

ETB 1

Its reception area is across the Autonomous Region of the Basque Country but also can be seen throughout Navarre, French Basque Country and surrounding provinces.

Fêtes de Bayonne

The fêtes de Bayonne is a feria consisting in a series of festivals in the Northern Basque Country in the town of Bayonne, France.

French Peruvian

The regions where most of the French immigrants originated from were Bordeaux, Paris, as well as the French portion of the Basque Country.

William Carlos Williams

Her son, Williams' father, married a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque and Dutch Jewish descent.


see also

Basque Country

French Basque Country or Northern Basque Country (Ipar Euskal Herria or Iparralde in Basque; Pays Basque or Pays Basque Nord in French), the three (historic) northern provinces in France (shown in yellow on the map)