A Culinary Journey in Gascony: Recipes and Stories from My French Canal Boat by Kate Ratliffe. From Wordnik.com. [la poule - French Word-A-Day] Reference
Gascony is also home to Armagnac brandy and most notably, France’s Foie Gras production. From Wordnik.com. [A Visit to D’Artagnan] Reference
Gascony is a historic region of which country?. From Wordnik.com. [June 2007] Reference
Morton took a big drink of the French wine from Gascony. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Flanders, fighting in Gascony ground to a desultory halt. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
An Australian-born -- he came of course from that Gascony of the. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Middle Ages were not as devastating as in Languedoc and Gascony. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
This was the period of recuperation and re-building for Gascony. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
He was made special commissioner to settle the troubles in Gascony. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ely A History and Description of the Building with a Short Account of the Monastery and of the See] Reference
CAGOTS, a people found in the Basque provinces, Béarn, Gascony and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
Edward III. obtained, besides Guienne and Gascony, Poitou, Saintonge and. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
Paris -- the encroachments made in Gascony by the officials of Philip IV. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Gascony to monitor and correct the tumultuous activities of John Ferrers. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Languedoc, and Gascony, which respected him as their common parent and master. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
In Normandy and Gascony the religious meetings might be open and unrestricted. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
It was his desire that the barons should go to Gascony, whilst he took the command in. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Knighthood, the fervor of the Crusader, the wit of Gascony, and the courage of Navarre. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
The people of Gascony, in southwest France, live longer and have lower rates of heart disease. From Wordnik.com. [Food: All Fun And Game] Reference
In the wastes of Gascony it was formerly a means of locomotion adapted to the nature of the country. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
King's daughter, to Gascony, and escorts for various Princes had to be provided on several occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
The last stage of Sir Guy Ferre the Youngers career in Gascony consisted of two rather dramatic missions. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Languedoc and Gascony are most interesting examples of a style which belonged to them as truly as to Provence. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Moreover, the kings of France had continued to maintain their own officials in some areas of Gascony occupied by. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Not surprisingly, the king elected to remain in England and administer Gascony through vice-ducal representatives. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
Eudes, duke of Aquitania, the possessor of Gascony and Guienne, had long maintained a quarrel with the French hero. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
Languedoc, and Gascony, and of these Provence is, architecturally and historically, the first to claim our interest. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Gascony, the last of the southern provinces and the farthest from Rome, had great prosperity under Imperial dominion. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Guy Ferre was still attending the king in Gascony the following month, but had returned to England by November 1289.23. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
It was, as we have seen, impossible to obtain good French infantry except from Gascony and some other border provinces. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
Up to recent years scarcely any merry-makings occurred in the villages of Gascony that were not accompanied with stilt races. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference
Neither in Loraine nor Burgundy, Anjou nor Gascony, might be found in that day a better knight than he, no, nor one his peer. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Gascony, particularly after the advent of Edward II, was subordinate to that of the seneschal, who wielded vice-ducal powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
John de Hastings, the English seneschal of Gascony, was forced to surrender his prisoners to the French seneschal of Toulouse. From Wordnik.com. [The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320] Reference
The Black Prince had involved himself in serious troubles in Gascony, and England was called upon to defend its conquests in France. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)] Reference
Two young lions are specially mentioned; and a "lion lately sent by the Lord the Prince from Gascony to England to the Lord the King.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849] Reference
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