Pey de Garros
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. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect
Gascon language
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into a literary language
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Garros was born at Lectoure
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, France
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. He studied law, theology, and Hebrew
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at the University of Toulouse
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and served as the avocat-général of Pau for a time. He strove to restore the Gascon dialect to prominence, translating the Psalms
Psalms
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of David
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in 1565 into Gascon dialect, and publishing a volume of Gascon poetry (Poesias gasconas) in 1567. He died in Pau.
This translation was a request from Queen Jeanne d'Albret who tried to establish calvinism in the Kingdom of Navarre
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and her other possetion. She also ordered another version in bearnese dialect to Arnaud de Salette
Arnaud de Salette
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