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Agenais

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Agenais

 or Agenois

Historical region, southwestern France. In ancient Gaul, Agenais was the country of the Nitiobriges, then a Gallo-Roman civitas, whose limits became those of the diocese of Agen. It was acquired by the dukes of Aquitaine in 1036. When Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Henry II of England in 1152, Agenais became the possession of the English kings. It alternated between French and British rule until it was reunited to the French crown in 1615.



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He focuses on three regions: Bordeaux and the Bordelais, Agen and the Agenais, and Toulouse and its environs--all hotbeds of Catholic activism and the only sizable urban centers that resisted reform movements of the period.
The best prunes come from Agen, or the district around known as the Agenais in France.
Gregory Hanlon's excellent empirical study of seventeenth-century Catholic and Protestant religious behavior in the Agenais has not been emulated for the French Atlantic littoral.
 
 
 
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