Guyenne

/ ɡɥijɛn /

noun

The father of Agrippa d'Aubign was, as his son informs us, one of the commissioners sent on this occasion to Guyenne.

But the terms of peace were not to the taste of the enterprising and self-reliant Huguenots of Languedoc and Guyenne.

But Guyenne was far away, and perhaps no one at Domremy knew that it had once been a part of the domain of the kings of France.

After fifteen days such ecclesiastics as shall not have obeyed the preceding dispositions should be deported to French Guyenne.

I will relate a story on this subject respecting a bourgeoise of Guyenne and the Sire de Beaumanoir.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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