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ARNAULD DE OIHENART (1592-1668)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 35 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARNAULD DE See also:OIHENART (1592-1668)  , Basque historian and poet, was See also:born at See also:Mauleon, and studied See also:law at See also:Bordeaux, . where he took his degree in 1612 . He practised first in his native See also:town, and after his See also:marriage with Jeanne d'Erdoy, the heiress of a See also:noble See also:family of See also:Saint-Palais, at the See also:bar of the See also:parlement of See also:Navarre . He spent his leisure and his See also:fortune in the See also:search for documents bearing on the old Basque and Bearnese provinces; and the fruits of his studies in the archives of See also:Bayonne, See also:Toulouse, See also:Duchesne) . See also:Oihenart published in 1625 a See also:Declaration historique de l'injuste usurpation et retention de la Navarre See also:par See also:les Espagnols and a fragment of a Latin See also:work on the same subject is included in See also:Galland's Memoires pour l'histoire de Navarre (1648) . His most important work is Notitia utriusque Vasconiae, tum Ibericae, tum Aquitanicae, qua praeter situm regions et alia scitu digna, Navarrae regum coeterarumque: in its insignum vetustate et dignitate familiarum . . . (See also:Paris, 1638 and 1656), a description of See also:Gascony and Navarre . His collection of over five See also:hundred Basque See also:proverbs, Atsotizac edo Refravac, included in a See also:volume of his poems 0°e" Gastaroa Nevrthizetan, printed in Paris in 1657, was supplemented by a second collection, Atsotizen Vrrhenquina, The proverbs were edited by Francisque See also:Michel (Paris, 1847), and the supplement by P . Hariston (Bayonne, 1892) and by V . Stempf (Bordeaux, 1894) . See See also:Julien Vinson, Essai ,d'une bibliographie de la langue basque (Paris, 1891) ; J . B .

E. de Jaurgain, See also:

Arnaud d'Oihenart et sa famille (Paris, 1885) .

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