Orthez

Orthez ( okzitan.: location), a French town with 10,886 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2011 ) in the department of Pyrénées- Atlantiques in the Aquitaine region. The city is located in the district and is the capital of Pau (French: chef- lieu) of its own canton.

The city lies on the River Gave de Pau. She was from March 4, 1790 capital first of a district, since February 17, 1800 an arrondissement. The district was dissolved on September 10, 1926, the cantons were allocated the arrondissements of Oloron and Pau.

In Orthez died in 1571, a native of Switzerland, Pierre Viret, who was appointed by Jeanne d' Albret to strengthen the Reformed Church in Navarre as a teacher at the local Academy, having previously worked as a reformer in Geneva and Lausanne.

Le Pont Vieux

Le Pont Vieux ( Old Bridge ) dates from the 13th and 14th centuries. Originally it had two towers, now spanning three asymmetric arches, in the center of which the tower is attached, the Gave. The tower has the onslaught of Protestant troops Montgomery's ( 1569 ) during the Wars of Religion and the troops of the Duke of Wellington ( 1814) survived during the Napoleonic Wars.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Gaston III. (1331-1391), the most famous master of the former county of Foix in the South of France
  • Eugène Casalis (1812-1891), missionary and linguist
  • Jean -Louis Curtis (1917-1995), writer
  • Francis Plante (1839-1934), pianist
  • Joël Suhubiette ( b. 1962 ), conductor
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