Talk:Gascony

message: I'm not sure about this, but on a Travel Channel show I heard that the residents of Gascony are a mix of French and Spanish. They also said that the people of Gascony are under the rule of Spain and France, which does not make sense because it's part of France. Can someone clear this up?
:The small spanish Aran Valley is, historically speaking, a part of Gascony. The local dialect is gascon, like on the other side of the border. That may explain why the show makes such an allusion to Spain. But most of Gascony is as a matter of fact in France. --Jibi44 09:13, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an old story: people who discover for the first time tne Occitan languages say they're a mix between French and Spanish. Of course, French, Spanish an Occitan (and Gascon) are clearly different languages, all resulting from evolution of the Latin. As an old Gascon I lived for years without putting a foot in Spain (it was in general Franco's time. It was like if there were nothing behind the Pyrenees). Morburre (talk) 17:58, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spain vs. France

message: Amazing that there's no mention of the English connection? It was, after all, the trigger for the longest war in history.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.221.82.186 (talk) 08:21, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  England 

message: I am not familiar with editing articles and I don't want to accidentally delete anything important, so I simply undid a recent change to the first sentence of the article that said Gascony is today known as the Pays Basque. This clearly contradicts most of the article and is not, to my knowledge, how the term is generally used. I would suggest changing the sentence further to include something like "Gascony is a historical, cultural and linguistic region in southwestern France roughly located south and west of the Garonne River."
Regardless, the equation of Gascony with Pays Basque is clearly wrong, despite the etymological relationship. First, the area today known as the Pays Basque is a fairly small area compared to the area described as Gascony in the rest of the article.  Second, at least in the past several hundred years, the Basque and Gascon peoples have spoken very different languages and have occupied different (if possibly overlapping) areas. The departments most closely associated with Gascony (Gers, Landes, etc.) are not today considered part of the Basque Country. Finally, even the map indicating Gascony in green at the top of the page excludes the area generally known as the Basque Country.
At any rate, judging by the content of the rest of the article and the nature of the comments on the talk page, people with far more knowledge on the topic than me have worked on this article. So this first sentence would appear to have simply been an oversight since it clearly contradicts much of what is said elsewhere in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pooley49 (talk • contribs) 21:20, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence misleading 

message: Could we see Gascony on a map of all of France? CessnaMan1989 (talk) 14:01, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: Cyrano de Bergerac was apparently Parisian, not a Gascon. See the article about him. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 06:39, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is linking to the historical person, but referring to the literary character, who is in fact more or less from Gascogne. 2 different Bergerac places, and two different Cyranos you see. 2607:FA49:4041:F700:C000:192A:D21E:C996 (talk) 16:33, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Be that as is may, Cyrano in the text specifically describes himself as Gascon See Raving Colonel (talk) 16:43, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyrano de Bergerac