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Contents 1 old talk 2 Please revert 3 sorry if this is the wrong place but... 4 cleanup tag added Nov.13th 2005 5 Economy/Food 6 language

[edit] old talk

Aquitaine is currently one of the regions of France. Possibly, it was also the name of one of the provinces of France. Guyenne was a province. Thus, it is not correct to equate Aquitaine-region and Guyenne, although Aquitaine-province and Guyenne might be, but I am not sure about the latter. - User:Olivier

--Cchipman 19:50, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC) Eleanor of Aquitaine was not childless with Louis, but gave him two daughters. You can see the article on Louis VII, but it states that its Alix and Marie.

[edit] Please revert

someone please revert to the version without the legends section

[edit] sorry if this is the wrong place but...

has anyone looked into the possibility of using image mapping to make the regional maps interactive? that way, someone could click on a region and it would bring them to the article about that region. it seems like the logical step because many people might not know the name of the region they want to find, just the general location. this would improve these sub-country pages a lot, i think.

[edit] cleanup tag added Nov.13th 2005

This cleanup tag is for the Encyclopedia Britannica text dump added by Pwqn -- it needs substantial work to bring it up to modern standards. POV and language problems. Stbalbach 04:10, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Reverted the Eb1911 text entirely. Stbalbach 04:16, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Economy/Food

I'll fix these up in a while... but if anyone wants to add something, jump in and feel free...

[edit] language

what language was used from 1361 until 1453? was it english or normand (french)? Shame On You 07:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

Used by whom?

English definitively not (except by expat Englishmen, particularly troops) because at that time the official language of England was French (Norman French?)

Latin was still a major "lingua franca" but in that Low Middle Ages period it was largely replaced by Occitan (Provenzal or maybe Languedocine) all along the Pyrenean region (north and south) as working language. I'm unsure about the use of French by Angevin aristocracy but it seems likely that Occitan was still more widely used as "official".

In Labourd, Basque was surely used at least as common language. In Gascony, people obviously spoke Gascon and dialects of it, which is often classified as Occitan but is very different from the other true Occitan dialects and never had the reputation of Provenzal and Languedocine (very simmilar to each other).

I don't have time to search for documentation but this picture seems a very likely: Ocitan and maybe some French with Latin as last resort, as "offcial" languages. Gascon and Basque in real life. --Sugaar 12:14, 10 November 2006 (UTC)