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ARMAGNAC, formerly a province of France and the most important fief of Gascony, now wholly comprised in the department of Gers (q.v.). In the isth century, when it attained its greatest extent, it included, besides Armagnac, the neighbouring territories of Fez ...

... in the country with their assistants and machinery. Such is the effect ARMAGH— ARMAGNAC of this combination of agricultural occupations with domestic manufactures that the farmers are more than competent to supply the resident population of the county wkh veg ...

... art in a campaign against the Turks, and on his return to France sided with the Armagnacs against the Swiss, greatly distinguishing himself at the battle of St Jacob in 1444. He then joined the order of the knights of Rhodes, and successfully conducted an expe ...

... shops — an arrangement which gave rise to constant strife. I'lu- < ..uiii-. <>i Armagnac possessed a castle in tin- city, which was the capital of Armagnac in the middle ages. During the Religious Wars of thr 1 6th century Auch remained Catholic, except for a ...