Previous Location: Languedoc
Google Map (in progress)
See the Pinchon illustrated map for Gascogne and Béarn, the Pinchon illustrated map for Guyenne, and the Pinchon illustrated map for Aunis, Saintonge, Angoumois, and Poitou.
Chapter LXXXV – The boat passes from the Canal du Midi to the Garonne River, and the boys reach Bordeaux and are reunited with their uncle Frantz.
Videos: Au fil de la Garonne and Le Bordelais, une terre d’exception, both from Échappées belles
Chapter LXXXVI – The boys and their uncle plan their return to Lorraine to settle matters of citizenship and money.
Chapter LXXXVII – Julien reads about great men of Gascogne – Montesquieu, Pierre Daumesnil, François Fénelon, and Saint Vincent de Paul.
Chapter LXXXVIII – The boys receive a letter from the orphan boy whom they had met earlier in Auvergne and write to him in reply. They describe an experience from the town of La Rochelle in Aunis.
Videos: LA ROCHELLE – “1000 Pays en un”– Documentaire complet and Les tours du Vieux-Port de la Rochelle – Région Poitou-Charentes – Le Monument Préféré des Français, both from Le Pays préféré des Français.
Chapter LXXXIX – The letter continues.
Videos on Gascogne, i general: Gascogne – Le Béarn – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire; Gascogne – Le Gers – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire; Gascogne – Les Landes – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire; La Gascogne, au coeur historique du Sud-Ouest – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire complet, all from Le Pays préféré des Français.
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Longfellow’s Poems of Places
Gascogne
Barèges in Hautes-Pyrénées
On Returning from Baréges by Jean-Jacques Lefranc de Pompignan (1709–1784)
Cauterets in Hautes-Pyrénées
In the Valley of Cauteretz by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
Guyenne
Carennac in Lot
The Little Abbey of Carennac by François Fénélon (1651–1715)
Castelculier in Lot-et-Garonne
The Blind Girl of Castèl Cuillè by Jacques Jasmin (1798–1864)
Blaye in Gironde
Geoffry Rudél and Melisanda of Tripoli by Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
Bourdeaux in Gironde
Burdigala by Ausonius (c. 310–395)
To the Memory of Edward the Black Prince by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)
Nihil sub sole novum 
