ARNAULD DE

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• ARNAULD DE OIHENART (1592-1668)

OIHENART (1592-1668)  , Basque historian and poet, was born at Mauleon, and studied law at Bordeaux, . where he took his degree in 1612 . He practised first in his native town, and after his marriage with Jeanne d'Erdoy, the heiress of a noble family of Saint-Palais, at the bar of the parlement of Navarre . He spent his leisure and his fortune in the search for documents bearing on the old Basque and Bearnese provinces; and the fruits of his studies in the archives of Bayonne, Toulouse, Duchesne) . Oihenart published in 1625 a Declaration historique de l'injuste usurpation et retention de la Navarre par les Espagnols and a fragment of a Latin work on the same subject is included in 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 . . . (Paris, 1638 and 1656), a description of Gascony and Navarre . His collection of over five hundred Basque proverbs, Atsotizac edo Refravac, included in a 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 Michel (Paris, 1847), and the supplement by P . Hariston (Bayonne, 1892) and by V . Stempf (Bordeaux, 1894) . See Julien Vinson, Essai ,d'une bibliographie de la langue basque (Paris, 1891) ; J . B .

E. de Jaurgain,

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