Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces, including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (1907)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L.C. Page & Company · leaf 436
e: * Messeigneurs, laissezVepee de France, nous sortons ici du royaume. Gaston Phoebus was the most accomplishedseigneur of his time, and he had for his motto Toquos-y se gaasos *—*Attack who dares. One day, in the month of August, 1390, onreturning from a bear hunt, greatly fatigued,he was handed… … The Pont dOrthez Orthez and the Gave dOloron 339 one recalls that Gaston himself killed his ownson because he would not eat at table. Orthez was deserted by the court for Pau,and in time the natural destruction of windand weather, and the hand of man, strifjped thechateau to what one sees to-day.…
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