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Extract from the Pau Travel Guides:
From humble beginnings as a crossing on the Gave de Pau for flocks en route to and from the mountains,
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became the capital of the ancient viscountcy of Barn in 1464, and of the French part of the kingdom of Navarre in 1512. In 1567 its sovereign, Henri d'Albret, married the sister of the king of France, Marguerite d'Angoulme, friend and protector of artists and intellectuals and herself the author of a celebrated Boccaccio-like tale (the
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), who transformed the town into a centre of the arts and nonconformist thinking.
Their daughter was Jeanne d'Albret, an ardent Protestant, whose zea...
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