Guyenne
Proper noun
Meaning
Guyenne
A former region in France
Synonyms
Examples
He was arrested and his slaves were freed according to a declaration of the Parlement of Guyenne which stated that slavery was intolerable in France.
Strickland, Agnes, Lives of the queens of England from the Norman conquest, Vol.2, (George Barrie and Sons, 1902), 222. Edward, Duke of Guyenne, her future husband, promised in 1326 to marry her within the following two years.
Although there were several families bearing the patronym "Eyquem" in Guyenne, his family is thought to have had some degree of Marrano ( Spanish and Portuguese Jewish ) origins.
In 1784 Fréminet sent six copies of a treatise about his machine hydrostatergatique to the chamber of Guienne (nowadays called Guyenne ).