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    Béarn (US: /beɪˈɑːrn/; French: [beaʁn] ; Occitan: Bearn [beˈaɾ] or Biarn; Basque: Bearno or Biarno; Latin: Benearnia or Bearnia) is one of the traditional...
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  • Béarn or Bearn can refer to: Béarn, a former province of France Estates of Béarn, the former Provincial Estates of Béarn Fors de Bearn, or fueros of Béarn...
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  • also intended to help absorb a torpedo detonation. Béarn, named for the historic province of Béarn, was ordered on 30 December 1912 and was laid down...
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    place began to be known as Béarn (in honor of the Béarn Regiment). Its post office opened in 1941. Because it was known as Béarn in common use, the name...
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  • Pierre Béarn (French: [beaʁn]; 15 June 1902 – 27 October 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania. He is known...
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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...
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    Chronicles. As the son of Gaston II of Foix-Béarn and Eleanor of Comminges, the future Gaston III was heir to the Foix-Béarn dynasty. This house was established...
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    France) formally incorporated Béarn as a province of France. The citation of a certain "Gaston [son] of Centule, viscount of Béarn" (Gasto Centuli vicecomes...
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    Béarn wine, and some in the area of the Madiran AOC may produce a rosé Béarn. Wines made in the village of Bellocq also carry the appellation Béarn-Bellocq...
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    of Centulle V of Béarn and Beatrix of Bigorre. He fought in the Reconquista in Spain. Gaston succeeded his father Centulle V of Béarn in 1090. During his...
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    capital of the joint Kingdom of Navarre with the sovereign Principality of Béarn, in his maternal grandfather King Henry II of Navarre's estate, the Château...
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    the following year. Military of New France Régiment de Béarn Nouvelle-France Régiment de Béarn reconstituted Nous étions le Nouveau Monde, Jean-Claude...
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    across the Pyrenees mountain range, joining the House of Bearn and moving their court to Pau in Béarn. Count Francis Phoebus became King of Navarre in 1479...
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    11th century by the Viscounts of Béarn, to protect the ford which was a strategic point providing access to the Bearn valleys and to Spain. The city takes...
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    d'agglomération Pau Béarn Pyrénées Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque Communauté de communes Adour Madiran (partly) Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves...
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    pepper or a pinch of cayenne. The sauce's name derives from the province of Béarn, France. It is a traditional sauce for steak. According to a common explanation...
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    nobility at the Estates of Béarn. Admission into the Estates of Béarn was a necessary condition to be recognized as noble in Béarn. French historians and...
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  • The Mint of Navarre and Béarn (French: Monnaie de Navarre et Béarn) was formed through the merger of the Mint of Navarre (French: Monnaie de Navarre) in...
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    Marguerite, daughter and heiress of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn, and he inherited Béarn and Nébouzan from his father-in-law in 1290, which led to the...
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  • the Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) area. Studios are in Pau. France Bleu Béarn started broadcasting in the early 1980s under the name Radio France Béarn. On...
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  • well as titular Countess of Bigorre, daughter of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn and his first wife Martha of Marsan. Constance inherited all of her titles...
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  • Navarre et de Béarn", alias "Parlement de Navarre séant à Pau") was created in 1620 out of the merger of the Conseil Souverain of Béarn and the Chancery...
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    of Navarre and Béarn (French: Monnaie de Navarre et Béarn), formed by the merger Mint of Navarre in Saint-Palais, with the mints of Béarn in Pau and Morlaàs...
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    Béarn and Soule, the practice of the three hole flute and tambourin came almost to a halt after World War II, except for the Ossau Valley in Béarn. Evidence...
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  • The Sovereign Council of Navarre and Béarn (French: Conseil Souverain de Navarre et de Béarn) was created by Henry II of Navarre at the Château de Pau...
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    The Luy de Béarn (French pronunciation: [lɥi də beaʁn], literally Luy of Béarn; Occitan: Lui de Bearn) is a left tributary of the Luy, in the Southwest...
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    Pyrénées-Atlantiques competed separately under the titles Miss Béarn (1996), Miss Bigorre-Béarn (2003; 2004), and Miss Béarn-Gascogne (2009). In 2003 and 2004, women from...
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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...
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  • The Béarn 6 was a six-cylinder air-cooled piston aircraft engine produced in France in the late 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. The Béarn 6 suffered from...
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    Countess of Bigorre. Her father, Gaston VII of Béarn, was the son of William II, Viscount of Béarn, and his wife, Garsenda, daughter of Alfonso II of...
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