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This article is about the former French province, for the warship see French aircraft carrier Béarn
Béarn (
Gascon:
Bearn or
Biarn;
Basque:
Biarno) is a former
province of France, located in the
Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in southwest
France. Along with the three
Basque provinces of
Soule,
Lower Navarre, and
Labourd, the principality of Bidache, as well as small parts of
Gascony, it forms in the
southwest the current
département of
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64).
Pau was the capital of the former
viscountcy of Béarn.
Béarn is bordered by Basque provinces
Soule and
Lower Navarre to the west, by Gascony (
Landes and
Armagnac) to the north, by
Bigorre to the east, and by
Spain (
Aragon) to the south.
Today the mainstays of the Béarn area are the petroleum business, the aerospace industry through the helicopter manufacturer
Turbomeca, tourism and agriculture. Pau was the birthplace of
Elf Aquitaine, which has now become a part of Total petroleum company.
In Alexandre Dumas's
The Three Musketeers series, d'Artagnan was from Bearn (he mentions having attended his father's funeral there in the second book,
Twenty Years After). That d'Artagnan is usually referred to as a Gascon is neither surprising nor incorrect, as Bearn is sometimes considered a part of Gascony.
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