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A model attribution edit summary is. The Cadets de Gascogne, in English the Captains of Gascony, were a French regiment under King Louis XIII. [1] The regiment was mainly recruited from the youngest sons of the aristocratic families of Gascony. The word cadet comes from the Occitan-Gascon capdèth, meaning chief or captain.
“The Gascons lose their real physiognomy here; from now on, we must entertain at their expense; only the caricature counts: one simplifies, exaggerates, one descends to the level of zaniness, qualities are turned in derision and foibles are turned into faults; authentic Gascons, the real Cadets of Gascony, would hardly recognize themselves in these characters.
It is your native Gascony, Sirs, that is a factory of soldiers, the breeding ground of the armies, the flower and the choice among the most warlike nobility of the earth... (Preface by Florimond de Raymond to the first edition of the Commentaires of Blaise de Monluc) D'Artagnan - the real one - was a Gascon.Alexander Dumas' d'Artagnan was, too ...
D'Artagnan, Charles de Batz de Castelmore, was born at the beginning of the 15th century in Lupiac in the Gers. Depicted in swashbuckling novels and films, especially by Alexandre Dumas, this apparently fictitious character actually did exist. A former musketeer wrote the first "biography" of his life, 27 years after his death, from notes that ...
Gascony: A breeding ground for soldiers : The Cadets of Gascony : Four Gascon seigneurs in the fourteenth century or “All for one and one for all” Gallery of illustrious Gascons : The Gascon Spirit
William Garcés of Fézensac detached from his land the County of Armagnac, to give to his younger son Bernard, who founded the first house of Armagnac.Bernard II, younger son of Bernard I, was briefly Count of Biscay—a title which he inherited from his mother—but was deposed by his cousin Guy Geoffroy Guillaume VIII, Duke of Aquitaine.
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For, even in the English language, the word cadet can designate a second-born child, or any of the younger children in a large family. And if, in any family with more than one offspring, there is always an eldest child and a cadet (or cadets), we can say that in Gascony, the word takes on a particular meaning. And this, for several reasons.
