Mont, and Sainte-Foide-Morlaas. Many northern Europeans came to know Gascony
because the northern pilgrimage routes to Santiago in Spain traversed the province.
George T.Beech
[See also: AQUITAINE; ARMAGNAC; FOIX]
Bordes, Maurice, ed. Histoire de la Gascogne des origines à nos jours. Roanne: Howath, 1982.
Labarge, Margaret W. Gascony, England’s First Colony 1204–1453. London: Hamish Hamilton,
1980.
Trabut-Cussac, Jean-Paul. L’administration anglaiseen Gascogne sous Henry III et Édouard I de
1254–1307. Geneva: Droz, 1972.
Vale, Malcolm G.A. English Gascony, 1399–1453. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
GASTON PHOEBUS
(1331–1391). Third count of Foix and lord of Béarn. The prose Livre des oraisons,
written between 1380 and 1383, a collection of thirty-seven prayers imploring God’s
pardon for the murder of his own son (in circumstances that are still not understood),
would not in itself have ensured its author fame. A fine scholar and musician, a gallant
warrior and passionate hunter, Gaston III is known chiefly for his Livre de chasse, written
be tween 1387 and 1391. A genuine treatise of natural science (it was to influence Buffon
in the 18th century), nourished with long experience and multifarious memories, it is a
profoundly innovative work by a close observer of wildlife who knows how to recreate
the exciting atmosphere of the hunting scenes he has lived, thanks to a sense of image
and movement. The work was enormously popular, with some forty-four manuscripts
extant, about half of which were lavishly illustrated.
Annette Brasseur
[See also: FERRIÈRES, HENRI DE; FOIX; GACE DE LA BUIGNE]
Phoebus, Gaston. Livre de chasse, ed. Gunnar Tilander. Karlshamm, 1971. [Based on MS
L(Leningrad, Hermitage).]
——. Livre des oraisons, ed. Gunnar Tilander and Pierre Tucoo-Chala. Pau: Marrimpouey, 1974.
[Based on MS L (Leningrad, Hermitage).]
Ménard, Philippe. Littérature et iconographie: les piéges dans les traités de chasse d’Henri de
Ferrières et de Gaston Phébus. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1980, pp. 159–88.
Tucoo-Chala, Pierre. L’art de la pédagogie dans le Livre de chasse de Gaston Fébus. Paris: Les
Belles Lettres, 1980, pp. 19–34.
——. Gaston Fébus, un grand prince d’occident au XIVe siècle. Pau: Marrimpouey, 1976.
GAUCELM FAIDIT
(fl. 1173–1202). A well-traveled and underappreciated Limousin troubadour, Gaucelm
Faidit led an extravagant bohemian life, according to his picaresque vida and five razos.
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