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The province of Gascony -- Protest against inclusion in / Aquitaine -- Union of Béarn, Foix, and Bigorre -- Navarre -- / Interest of Gascony to English people -- Gascony annexed to the / Crown of England -- Viscounty of Béarn -- The Fors -- Independence / of the people -- A babe with open hands -- An elderly wife -- John / of Béarn's treatment of a Pope -- Charles of Viana -- Schemes of / Juana -- Murder of Blanche -- The coveted crown -- Death of Francis / Phœbus -- Choice of a husband -- Gascon braggarts.
The province of Gascony included Labourde, of which Bayonne was the capital; the viscounty of Soule, with Mauleon as its chief town; Basse Navarre; Béarn, a viscounty, with its residential châteaux at Orthez and at Pau, and its cathedrals at Lescar and Oloron; Bigorre, a county with its capital at Tarbes; Cominges, and to the south of that Couserans; and finally the county of Foix, on the frontier of Languedoc.