Quotes About Gascony

I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom, murmured Athos;

The most commonly used dyestuff was woad, which gave a good blue. It was imported from the English possessions around Bordeaux in Gascony, and increasingly grown as a field crop in England

I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.