Gers
Also known as: Gers
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The département of the Gers in Gascony (chief town Auch), Paul de Cassagnac's political fief: he sat for it in the Chamber (for Condom, then from 1881 for Mirande; Assemblée nationale, Sycomore «Granier de Cassagnac»), and his family's house at Couloumé is there (CASSAGNAC).
References in Diary
- 079.0265 (8 April 1878): the by-election at Auch, where «on a élu un David quelconque au lieu de M. Peyrusse».
- 083.0019 (23 October 1878): «les populations du Gers ont demandé à grands cris de voir Mme Paul» (Cassagnac's new wife).
- 083.0340 (1 December 1878): Cassagnac leaves for the Gers; 083.0357 (6 December 1878): a clipping «On télégraphie de Plaisance, du Gers».
- 083.0566 (6 January 1879): of the Senate elections, «Le Gers seul s'est mal conduit».
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