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 | | Here is the homeland of the great chansonniers, here is the birthplace of the cult of courtly love, and here were to be found the strongholds of the Cathars, or Albigensians - Mediaeval schismatics whose influence can still be felt. |
 | | Covers: Albi, Albret, Angoulême, Aquitaine, Armagnac, the Arverni, Astarac, Auvergne, Avignon, Béarn, Besançon, Beziers, Bigorre, Carcassonne, Fézensac, Foix, Forcalquier, Gascony, La Marche, Limoges, Mâcon, Monaco, Orange, Périgord, Poitou, Provence, Razes, Roussillon, Septimania, Toulouse, and Vienne. |
 | | Less a geographic territory than the name of a family, the Albret dynasts were a Gascon clan of old Hispanic origin, who settled at an early date in Aquitaine. |
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