Gaston III ‘Fébus’, count of Foix (d. 1391)

Gaston III, count of Foix, known as Fébus (1331 - 1391), son of Gaston II of Foix and Aliénor de Comminges, whose court the chronicler visited in 1388. Gaston was born in 1331 and succeeded his father in 1343. On 4th August 1348 he married Agnès de Navarre, the daughter of Philippe, count of Évreux and of Jeanne, queen of Navarre, who herself was the daughter of Louis X of France known as the Quarreller, the Headstrong or the Stubborn. Gaston died in 1391. He was the author of a celebrated treatise on hunting entitled Livre de chasse, or the Book of the hunt.

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The Livre de chasse is available today in CD Rom format; Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Montparnasse. There is also a luxury edition, with the text in modern French printed on loose sheets of luxury paper with colour illustrations: P. Tucoo-Chala, Gaston Fébus, Le Livre de Chasse, illustrated by Dominique Pardigon, Arts et Couleurs, 2 volumes, sous emboîtages (Principauté de Monaco, 1996).

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