Gascony and Agenng
I technically live in the department of Lot-et-Garonne (the names of the two rivers) which is the old region called Aquitaine but I am right on the northern edge of...you guessed it Gascony. Aquitaine has its own list of cool places and people; Eleanor of Aquitaine (cough she started chivalry), Bordeaux, lots of ducks, the town that was used as the basis for Beauty and the Beast but this is a post dedicated to the ancient wild beautiful region called Gascony. Who do you know from Gascony? Uh I don't know a certain man called 'd'artagnan'. Just kinda a big deal, not only because he is made fun of for being a gascon but also because try as he would he was very gascon. Yes they speak with a cute twang, adding a -g- to the ends of words and yes they are friendly and different from other French from different regions. Like the south east this region spoke a language called Occitan long before it spoke 'proper french' making it sound much like Catalan but not qu...