Bucking the trend, however, is Armagnac, France's lesser-known brandy from the Gascony region in the south-west. |
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Cognac may get all the attention in the US, but there's a hard core of fans of the French brandy from Gascony, Armagnac. |
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A young talented lad from Gascony goes up to Paris with the mad hope of becoming a King's musketeer. |
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Hidden among the rolling, idyllic countryside of Gascony our gîtes offer a perfect way to relax and enjoy the southern French atmosphere. |
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It is farmed mainly in Gascony and throughout southwestern France, including the Gers region. |
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It will be a pleasure to introduce you to the region and to make your stay in Gascony enjoyable and interesting. |
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René Mailhot, his roots in Gascony, grand master of international political news, has left us. |
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An area in Gascony with its generous inhabitants, a land of plenty with its sunny climate, an area that is just waiting for you! |
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Home of cadets of Gascony, it is also a region rich in mystical emotion for the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela passes this way. |
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It was in the Gers that the cadets of Gascony won their letters patent of nobility. |
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Vast territory with varied landscapes, Gascony will not cease to surprise you and to fill you with wonder! |
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Particularity of Pyrenean Gascony, it is about barns which pinions are cut in terraces protected by a slate. |
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Currently residing in the Department of Gers, she finds inspiration for her work in the small villages and countryside of Gascony, France. |
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The English Channel shouldn't be too much of a problem even if there isn't much wind, the high pressure will be over the Gulf of Gascony. |
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Our retreats are held at a magnificent 15th century château located in the heart of Gascony, southwestern France. |
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In 1224, during one such domestic quarrel, their old Capetian enemy, now King Louis VIII, walked into Poitou, captured La Rochelle, and threatened Gascony. |
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In the Gulf of Gascony we will have to cross the ridge that is less active than was expected. |
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Not since the Three Musketeers unsheathed their swords centuries ago has Gascony seen this much excitement. |
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At least the Americans know how to eat in Gascony, his smile seemed to say. |
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Françoise and Rita return the favour by paying tribute to La Compagnie Lubat's home region, Gascony, and the joys of the Uzeste Festival. |
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Kate Hill is an American expat and one of the reasons I had determined to find my way to Gascony. |
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The latter half of the 7th century saw the emergence of the principality of Gascony, ruled aver by Felix and duke Loup. |
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Ariane was born and raised in a two-star Michelin kitchen in Gascony, a rustic corner in Southwest France. |
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This high-pressure zone will also generate sustained eastern sector winds in the Gulf of Gascony. |
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Eight weeks later she married Henry, thus Henry became duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and count of Poitiers. |
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Gascony is the land of d'Artagnan, who inspired Alexandre Dumas's character d'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers. |
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The French monarchy asserted its rights to encroach on Edward's legal rights in Gascony. |
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John lost control of all his continental possessions, apart from Gascony in southern Aquitaine. |
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The territory of Novempopulania corresponded quite well to what we call now Gascony. |
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His 1152 marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine allowed the future Henry II to gain control of his new wife's possessions of Aquitaine and Gascony. |
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Moving simultaneously westward, it arrived in the English province of Gascony around the same time. |
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In December 1259, Louis IX of France ceded to Henry land north and east of Gascony. |
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It was agreed that Gascony should be taken back into Philip's hands, thus precipitating the Hundred Years War between England and France. |
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However, Dorset was devastated by the bubonic plague in 1348 which arrived in Melcombe Regis on a ship from Gascony. |
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Abdul Rahman next proceeded through Gascony all the way to Bordeaux, capturing the city. |
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Gascon lords also surrendered, and Aquitaine and Gascony were finally fully subdued by the Franks. |
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This Gascony vinedom, whose first cultivators were Gauls working under their Roman conquerors, comprises five distinctive districts. |
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After jibing this afternoon, the Safran will only have to perform a limited number of maneuvers to leave the Gulf of Gascony and start heading towards the trade winds. |
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The burgeoning viticultures of Burgundy and Gascony proved incompatible with traditional demesne lordship and encouraged sharecropping and peasant initiative. |
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A truce in September 1340 was extended for several years, during which time Edward intervened in a disputed succession to the duchy of Brittany, while Philip's officials increased their pressure on Gascony. |
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Members run the gamut from movie stars to wine growers in Gascony. |
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Jurisdictional questions in Gascony remained unsettled. |
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The fishing area is the Gulfs of Lyons and Gascony, plus Brittany. |
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Let us take you on a gastronomic trip to the heart of Gascony, in the South West of France, to an organic farm specializing in the production of lamb meat. |
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This grape variety from Gascony is a mainstay in the vineyards of its region of origin, the Basque Country, as well as Béarn, southern Landes and Gers. |
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It was a lovely day, the storm was howling in the Gulf of Gascony and the sea pushed by the off shore wind rapidly grew larger than normal and carried away the lovers. |
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The interior is dominated by the enormous pine forest, home to the Regional Natural Park of the Landes in Gascony and its excellent network of cycle routes. |
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Our lord ELEONORE OF GUYENNE, heir of the sovereign Dukes of Gascony, had brought the whole of Aquitaine, including AGENAIS, as a dowry to her husband LOUIS 7th the Young. |
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Their troops were gathered in Normandy, Gascony and were later reinforced by Castilian colonists. |
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The French were required to do no more than continue their struggle against the English in Gascony. |
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He planned to go on crusade to the Levant, but was prevented from doing so by rebellions in Gascony. |
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Meanwhile, Louis VIII of France allied himself with Hugh de Lusignan and invaded first Poitou and then Gascony. |
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He helped the King deal with disaffection in Gascony, but their reconciliation was a hollow one. |
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He would have barely known his natural mother Eleanor, who was in Gascony with his father during his earliest years. |
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The King then exiled Gaveston to Gascony in 1307 for reasons that remain unclear. |
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Edward probably hoped that the marriage would strengthen his position in Gascony and bring him much needed funds. |
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Philip gave lenient terms for settling the problems in Gascony, and the event was spoiled only by a serious fire in Edward's quarters. |
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In November 1324 he met with the earls and the English Church, who recommended that Edward should lead a force of 11,000 men to Gascony. |
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In 1206 John departed for Poitou himself, but was forced to divert south to counter a threat to Gascony from Alfonso VIII of Castile. |
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In 1303 the French king restored Gascony to Edward by signing the Treaty of Paris. |
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In 1248, Simon de Montfort was appointed Governor in the unsettled Duchy of Gascony. |
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In May 1286, King Edward I paid homage before the new king, Philip IV of France, for the lands in Gascony. |
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In 1313, in a famous case the St Mary of Bayonne, from Gascony, ran ashore at Chale Bay. |
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Two dukes of Gascony, Seguin II and William I, died defending Bordeaux from Viking assaults. |
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This expansion also led to the independence of Galicia, as well as gaining overlordship over Gascony. |
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He had long been deeply involved in the affairs of his own Duchy of Gascony. |
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The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gascony within the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king's vassal. |
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It became clear that Gascony would also fall unless reinforcements were sent from England. |
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The French kings had endeavored, over the centuries, to reduce these possessions, to the effect that only Gascony was left to the English. |
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By the 13th century the terms Aquitaine, Guyenne and Gascony were virtually synonymous. |
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At the beginning of Edward III's reign on 1 February 1327, the only part of Aquitaine that remained in his hands was the Duchy of Gascony. |
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For the first 10 years of Edward III's reign, Gascony had been a major point of friction. |
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France's sea power led to economic disruptions for England, shrinking the wool trade to Flanders and the wine trade from Gascony. |
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The city of Vannes changed hands several times, while further campaigns in Gascony met with mixed success for both sides. |
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After Charles VII's successful Normandy campaign in 1450, he concentrated his efforts on Gascony, the last province held by the English. |
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Originating in China, it spread west along the trade routes across Europe and arrived on the British Isles from the English province of Gascony. |
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After his failure to overthrow his father, Richard concentrated on putting down internal revolts by the nobles of Aquitaine, especially in the territory of Gascony. |
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In 1204, John lost Normandy, Brittany, Maine and Anjou to Philip II of France, leaving English power on the continent limited to Gascony and Poitou. |
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His military campaigns left him in heavy debt and when Philip IV of France confiscated the Duchy of Gascony in 1294, Edward needed funds to wage war in France. |
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On the way back from Gascony, Henry met with Louis for the first time in an arrangement brokered by their wives, and the two kings became close friends. |
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But, at the repeated requests of King Henry, he gave up this project in order to act as viceroy in the unsettled and disaffected Duchy of Gascony. |
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Philip became king without serious opposition, until his attempt to confiscate Gascony in 1337 made Edward III press his claim to the French throne. |
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Edward's control of Gascony created tension with the French kings. |
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Alfonso renounced all claims to Gascony and assisted the Plantagenets against rebels such as Gaston de Bearn, who had taken control of the Pyrenees. |
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Over the course of its existence, the duchy incorporated the Duchy of Gascony and, until 1271, the County of Toulouse, which now falls in the region of Occitanie. |
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The Angevin Empire had been reduced to England, Gascony, Ireland, and parts of Poitou, and John would not return to his continental possessions for eight years. |
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The English were to meet the French and Breton fleets in the English Channel while the Spanish attacked them in the Bay of Biscay and then attack Gascony. |
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Charles mobilised his army and ordered the invasion of Gascony. |
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Gascony and vicinity is an active area of Viking archaeology at present. |
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With France and England close to war following Philippe IV's declaration of England's possession of Gascony forfeit in 1293, alliance with France was a clear course to take. |
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Edward was less successful in Gascony, which was overrun by the French. |
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John continued to sell charters for new towns, including the planned town of Liverpool, and charters were sold for markets across the kingdom and in Gascony. |
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