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ARMAGNAC

Volume 3 · 62 words · 1860 Edition

a small territory of France, in the old province of Gascony, now forming a part of the departments of Gers, Haut Pyrenees, and Tarn and Garonne. It gave a title to the descendants of the ancient dukes of Gascony and Aquitaine. The counts of Armagnac bore a conspicuous part in the wars of France and England in the fifteenth century. See France.