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Navarre
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synonyms: Navarra ???
tags: [geography]
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Definition:An autonomous region until around 1840 it was split in two and annexed by France and Spain.The Spanish portion still goes by this name while the French region is called Basse-Navarre.
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M. le Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon, who dearly loved the King of Navarre, drew me aside and asked if the wound were mortal. I told him yes, because all wounds of great joints, and especially contused wounds, were mortal, according to all those who have written about them.
Ambroise Paré. Journeys In Diverse Places
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(a descendant of Catherine de Foix, Queen of Navarre and grand-daughter of Charles VII)
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 3]
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Nothing to do but hitch your rope ladder to the battlements, shin down it, break your leg in the moat—because a rope ladder is nineteen foot too short, you know—and there's your horses and your trusty vassles, and they scoop you up and fling you across a saddle, and away you go to your native Langudoc, or Navarre, or wherever it is.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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