BéARN

:''This article is about the former French province, for the warship see French aircraft carrier Béarn''
'Béarn' (Gascon: ''Bearn'' or ''Biarn'') is a former province of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest France. Along with the three Basque provinces of Soule, Lower Navarre, and Labourd, as well as small parts of Gascony, it forms the current ''département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64).
Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces Soule and Lower Navarre to the west, by Gascony (Landes and Armagnac) to the north, by Bigorre to the east, and by Spain (Aragon) to the south.
In Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers series, d'Artagnan was from Bearn (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 Bearn is sometimes considered a part of Gascony.

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People from Béarn

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People from Béarn

★ Alexander Gordon Bearn

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★ Viscountcy of Béarn

★ Viscounts of Béarn

★ Fors de Béarn

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★ Pau-online.com