- Béarn
:"This article is about the former French province, for the warship see
French aircraft carrier Béarn "Béarn (Gascon : "Bearn" or "Biarn"; Basque: "Biarno") is a formerprovince of France , located in thePyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwestFrance . Along with the three Basque provinces ofSoule ,Lower Navarre , andLabourd , the principality of Bidache, as well as small parts ofGascony , it forms in the southwest the current "département " ofPyrénées-Atlantiques (64). Pau was the capital of the formerviscountcy of Béarn .Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces
Soule andLower Navarre to the west, by Gascony (Landes and Armagnac) to the north, byBigorre to the east, and bySpain (Aragon ) to the south.Today the mainstays of the Béarn area are the petroleum business, the aerospace industry through the helicopter manufacturer
Turbomeca , tourism and agriculture. Pau was the birthplace ofElf Aquitaine , which has now become a part of Total petroleum company.In
Alexandre Dumas 'sThe 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 sometimes considered a part of Gascony.People from Béarn
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Alexander Gordon Bearn
*Alejo Peyret
*Charles XIV John of Sweden King ofSweden andNorway (where he was known asKarl III Johan ) from 1818 to 1844
*François Bayrou - Candidate in the 2007 French presidential elections
*Gaston Planté - French physicist who invented thelead acid battery in 1859
*Henry IV of France - Ruled as King of France from 1589 to 1610
*Jeanne III of Navarre - Queen regnant ofNavarre from 1555 to 1572 and mother of King Henry IV of France
* Jean-Jacques Caux
*Pierre Bourdieu ee also
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Bearnaise sauce
*Bearnese language *
Fors de Béarn
*Laruns - Laruns is a typical Bearnese village and commune
*Pau Pyrénées Airport *
Viscountcy of Béarn
*Viscounts of Béarn External links
* [http://www.pau-online.com/english/index.php Pau-online.com ]
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