 Without issue, and without political dimension, although politicians like Louis Barthou, François Bayrou and others have never neglected this "sounding board" which also brings together celebrities from entertainment, from information and from gastronomy.The Béarnese state language, before 1789, was a Gascon dialect of Occitan.For the anecdote, there is an English-Béarnese dictionary for the use of the British who were vacationing in Pau.