Water-Good

Water-Good is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Its inhabitants is called the Water-Bonnais .

Geography

Located in Valley of Ossau, the commune is composed of four villages:
; Water-good The small city of Water-Good was built as from the 18th century near a thermal spring. Water-good the abrupt collapse of the valley of Valentine dominates. This geological characteristic created a spectacular cascade, remained a long time an attraction for the visitors before being strongly reduced by hydro-electric collecting located upstream village.
; Aas On the other side of the valley, on the headland of the Green Mountain, is the village of Aas, known like the “village of whistling”. Its inhabitants communicated on long distances thanks to a Langage whistled . This village, which is at the origin of the commune, lived since its origins of the Pastoralisme.
; Assouste Another hamlet, Assouste, belonged to the commune. It is a typical village ossalois located in the northern part of the communal territory, below the village of Aas.
; Gourette The ski station of Gourette represents the most recent development of the commune. Located in the southern part of the valley, its field Ski whitebait is widest of the Yrénées-Atlantiques.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by an affluent of the Gave d' Ossau, the brook the Valentine (14,3  km) and its affluents:
  • the brook of Blanques
  • the brook Cély
  • the brook of Louesque
  • the brook of Portaig
  • the brook the Deaf person

Localities and hamlets

In addition to the hamlets referred to above, it is necessary to note the following place names: The Green Mountain, Azive, way of Lious, Lious dédérat, Pleysse, Saclutte, the horizontal one, the empress, the pétarok, the trench, Gourzy, Sialat, Boila, Ley, Iscoo, the collar of Aubisque, the Large Beech, Hourat (Oratorical), Plaà Ségouné.

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Water-Good comes from the name of medicinal springs called Eaux of Arquebusades at the 16th century. One finds the form Aigabonne in 1764 in the accounts of Laruns.
The toponym Aas appears in the forms Haas (1343, homages of Béarn), Ahas-in-Ossau (1384, notaries of Navarrenx), Saint-Laurent-with Aas (1654, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
It has a root basco-Aquitaine aitz , point rocheuse.
The toponym Assouste appears in the forms Soste (1270, chapter of Ossau), Assoste and Asoste (1440, cartulaire of Ossau or Red book ), Notre-Dame d' Assouste (1655, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
It comes from the occitan assosta , abrité.
place The toponym Gourzy appears in the forms Gorsii (1439, notaries of Oloron), Gorzii (1538, reformation of Béarn), Goursin (1648, payment of Laruns).
The toponym Ley is mentioned in 1675 (reformation of Béarn).

History

Origins of the city

The first traces of occupation go back with the Neolithic era and the Bronze Age: one indeed found 7 skeletons human and 3 vases with the locality Carnala .
Before the 16th century, there does not exist any proof of any dwelling. The Roman , large amateurs of baths and which occupied the area until the 5th century, seem to have used significantly the thermal springs, no ancient vestige not having been to date discovered. It is probable that constructions existed to accommodate people of the country or the rare visitors but one to date does not lay out of any source the confirmant.
It is during the 16th century that is quoted, for the first time in the bibliography, the construction of a building. It is a military hospital, built by François Ier and intended for the Inhabitants of Béarn wounded with the Bataille of Pavia (1525) by new weapons: arquebuses.
One century later, in 1648, the Comtesse of Ancenis took water with Water-Good but placed prudently with the castle of Béost.
In 1771, the count Antoine-Marie de Cluzel, officer of the army of Cop, writes to have made there build the “first honest house, with panes”. One year later, in 1772, the duke of Biron makes a stay with Water-Good. It qualifies the state of the hydropathic establishment the “disastrous one” and adds that “three thousand patients dispute the six bath-tubs there”.
The end of the 18th century and the 19th century see a considerable increase in frequentation. The rate/rhythm of the building work accelerates. The buildings of the beginning of this period present a regional architecture. Initially, one calls upon the local contractors indeed. As in other villages of the valley of Ossau, the buildings built at that time have three or four stages and the slate roofs are equipped with attic windows. Nowadays, they are easily recognizable around and opposite the hydropathic establishment and along the street Louis Barthou.

Birth of a city

When in 1887 Guy of Maupassant publishes Mount-Oriol , the history of the development of a thermal small town of the Massif Central, Water-Good comprises already all the ingredients of the ideal urban model of the town of water. The “thermal baths of the Mount-Oriol” comprise a hotel, villas and a Moorish casino of style. The picturesque public garden and walks are also present, surrounding the hydropathic establishment.

This imported model of the capital takes the step on the regional style, creating an urban environment which makes say to Hippolyte Taine: " I intended to find the countryside here: a village as there is such an amount of of it, of long roofs, thatch or tile; cracked walls, wobbly doors, and in the courses one shovel-mixes with carts, faggots, tools, of pets, short all the picturesque and charming carelessness of the rustic life. I meet a street of Paris, and the walks of the wood of Boulogne… .
In the Years 1830, the old hydropathic establishment is rebuilt, as well as a new church and the house of the communes (called house of the Government, it is the current town hall). While advancing in the 19th century, the Style Second Empire appears: the number of stages increases significantly, the openings are full clotheshanger, the red brick is used for the frontages, the balconies with corbellings appear. In 1861, the first stone of the military hospital is posed by the empress Eugenie.
It is with this second half of the 19th century, which knew a true “thermal fever”, that one owes the large hotels of the street Castellane (street which up to that point was used as park with carts). In 1868, more than one hundred of houses are listed for a population of 750 inhabitants. The building work of the buildings of the street of Aas (which will become later street of the Cascade) begins about 1856, for the account of inhabitants of Aas. They are initially huts out of wooden and gravers provisional where the craftsmen and guides of the station sleep. They are replaced little by little by buildings. The lack of place and the high price of the grounds explain the need for building houses of several étages.
In 1899, the city, as well as the Horizontal walk, are already enlightened with electricity. The hydroelectric station is with the bottom of the street of the cascade.

The cure and the Hydrotherapy

The thermal springs spout out since million years in the hollow of this small valley of Haut-Béarn. Their curative properties are undoubtedly known since unmemorable times. Time when only the drugs offered by nature existed, they represented probably a great value. Before the 17th century, the relation of the man to water is almost divine. The Gallo-Roman heritage is still dominating (the Romans occupied the area until the 5th century after Jesus-Christ and their cultural and technical contributions were important). If one realizes well of the beneficial effects of mineral water on health, they are allotted to obscure underground forces. The remissions are regarded as providential, even miraculous. No ancient vestige was to date discovered with Water-Good which would prove a Roman use of water, (as with Lurbe-Saint-Christau for example). It seems besides that is the case for all the Pyrenean stations too located inside the mountains and moved away from the main axes of communication.

The sources of Water-Good are quoted for the first time in 1462. Their membership, disputed a long time between Aas and Assouste, is finally conceded with the first of both villages.

At the time of sound Voyage to the Pyrenees in 1860, Taine describes what can be the day of a curist. It is recommended to drink water three times per day. “ Each one will take its syrup bottle, at the place numbered, on a kind of rack, and the compact mass of the drinkers makes the tail around the tap (…). First drunk glass, one waits one hour before taking another of them; however one walks longitudinally and into broad, coudoyé by the groups in a hurry which trail themselves painfully between the columns (…). One lengthens the neck with the door to see a dark corridor where the patients soak their feet in a bucket of warm water, arranged in file like schoolboys the day of cleanliness and exit. ”

Two sources are exploited (still nowadays) on nine what exists. One, named Old Source , spouts out at a temperature of 44°C to the foot of the Butte to the Treasury . The other, the Cold Source , is collected opposite the building of the General mutual company of the postal and telecommunications authorities at a temperature of 13°C. Their properties make it possible to look after the whole of the respiratory tracts, rheumatisms and ostéo-articular after-effects of traumatisms.

The discovery of the Pyrénéisme

With hydrotherapy, the pyreneism is the second reason for the exceptional passion which the station at the 19th century knows. The writer Henri Béraldi lance this word " pyrénéisme" in 1898 in the first pages of Hundred years in the Pyrenees . It recovers dynamic triple: to climb - to feel - to write. He affirms thus that the physical experiment of the mountain is inseparable from the cultural development. The pyreneism answers quickly waitings of all those which were not recognized in the alpinism, primarily sporting and turned towards the performance.
A company of scholars, naturalists, botanists, geologists discovers the diversity of the Pyrenean natural heritage. One owes them an important rich ornithological collection of very many species of birds naturalized always exposed in the gallery of the hydropathic establishment. A collection of minerals of the Pyrenees as well as monumental a Herbier of the Pyrenees are consisted the shepherd-botanist Pierrine Gaston Sacaze. Its collections are acquired in 1878 by the mairie.

Appearance of the winter sports

With the turning of the century, the passion for the plays of snow takes to court the pioneers themselves. Quickly, the fashion of the winter sports attracts each end of the week increasingly many customers on the slopes of Gourzy or Benou. The amateurs come from Pau, Bordeaux and even from Paris.
The ski, means of displacement easy in the covered with snow valleys, imported Scandinavian countries, is transformed into an activity of leisure and a sport of hiver.
The commune of Water-Good sees the party immediately that it can draw from this passion. Having a capacity of lodging luxurious and abundant, connected to Pau by the railroad of Laruns, it organizes the first international contest of ski of the Pyrenees February 15th and 16th 1908 and the second, in the presence of Alphonse XIII, the king of Spain, February 20th and 21st 1909. The courageous participants dispute the few rooms with chimney, or failing this with simple a conduit.
The success of the demonstration exceeds the forecasts. Fifty sledges are built to convey the 4000 visitors of the contest from the station of Laruns. Exceptional snowing up makes it possible to concentrate all the tests on the meadow Alphonse XIII.
The hotel ones of Water-Good arrange a ski slope along the Darralde garden and a skating rink of 700m2 with cloakrooms in front of the Thermal baths of Orteig to the bottom of the street of Cascade.
The plate of Gourette is also put at contribution for the contest of jump. Its abundant snowing up and its conformation attract the sportsmen but it will have to be waited until 1930 so that a lodging is construit.
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Years of war

The second world war involves to it quasi closing of the station. The Paid vacations, lately acquired, the winter sports and the Thermalisme are not any more topicality in France occupée.
The deserted station however will draw the attention of the German authorities which requisition several hotels to assign there with residence the Républicains Spanish, the Juif S and various prisoners coming from the Camp of Gurs.
January 18th, 1943, 400 prisoners are led in the bus to the station of Laruns. The convoy, bound for Drancy then of Auschwitz makes a stop in the Creuse, with Guéret. The prisoners are released and disseminated in the département.
The exact responsibility for this release remains vague, but the prefect of Pau, and its sub-prefect seem there to have taken an active share (source: files of the newspaper '' Sud-Ouest '')

The change of the Hydrotherapy

The station will not find after the war the notoriety and the frequentation reached at the beginning of the 20th century. The fashionable idle rich person customers which animated her casino and her hotels disappeared.
As from the years 1950, the distrust of the medical community against the benefits of the Thermalisme will involve its progressive decline. After avoidhaving avoided it the previous century of all the therapeutic virtues, the doctors discover the scientific techniques and substitute the Antibiotiques for the cures thermales.
The Social security, which dealt with these cures, removes its refundings and the traditional customers reduced her stays, involving the closing of many hotels and houses of rapport.
With the Nineties appears a new request. Therapeutic hydrotherapy and its image of morbid patients depressing in front of water glass leave the place with back in shape and the Hydrothérapie.
This tendency combines with the appearance of the “Country holidays”, which develops the mountain of été.
In this context, Water-Good discovers the vast potential which the presence within the same commune gets to him:
  • of a traditional habitat (Aas and Assouste).
  • of a garden city of the 19th century preserved without deteriorations with its constructions and apartments of great architectural quality.
  • of a station of altitude with a skiable vast domain and recent constructions.
  • of a vast network of excursions and already arranged walks.

The village of Aas benefits from this evolution to renovate and supplement its urbanization. This urbanization is accompanied however by a alarming mitage of the Green Mountain which deteriorates its pastoral character definitively.

Administration



In 1861, the town hall is transferred from Aas to Water-Good, following in that the growing success of its thermal springs. On this occasion, the commune takes the name then Water-Good and loses its position of first commune in the alphabetical classification of the communes of France.
In spite of its obviousness, Water-Good remains the only village in France to bear this name.

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to seven inter-commune structures:
  • SIVOM of the valley of Ossau
  • arranges public local management
  • mixed trade-union of the station of Water-Good/Gourette
  • trade union of defense of water of believed of the gave
  • mixed trade-union of Haut-Béarn
  • mixed trade-union of the Country of tourist Oloron-Haut-Béarn
  • trade union of the canton of Laruns.

The common one belongs to the Pays of Oloron and Haut-Béarn.

Demography

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Economy

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Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

; villas and the casino

Essential component of the stations of holiday of the 19th century, the villas make it possible to attract a rich person customers. One builds country cottages in the Anglo-Norman taste in favor at the time.
The territory of the commune, penalized by the scarcity of its land, will not allow the development of this shape of habitat which will extend in cities like Bagnères-with-Luchon or Cauterets.
One counts ten remarkable villas all the same:

  • Villa Bellevue on the horizontal, known walk to be visible in all points of the valley of Ossau. It was one of the multiple properties of the guide Pierre Lanusse.
  • Villa Cockade cottage built in 1937 by the English writer Dornford Yates on the road of Aas.
  • Villa Miller built for the doctor Valéry Miller in the English style, located at the exit of the village on the road of Gourette.

; A purified architectural style
The urban organization of Water-Good is often described as Haussmann ienne because of the extent of the buildings and the rise in their frontages. However, the building installation of, around a central garden and inside a network of walks, largely refers to the garden cities britanniques.
The architecture of the buildings also moves away from the Parisian model by the sobriety of the Modénature and the smoothness of the proportions. Here, not of sculptures, capitals or omnipresent Caryatids in the Parisian buildings of the Second Empire. This sobriety reflects at the same time the influence of architecture inhabitant of Béarn, massive and little ornamented, and the need imposed by local materials. The stone and the marble of the Pyrenees, hard and difficult to work, call single circuit lines, smooth framings and a measured vocabulary of stringcourses and frontons.
The resulting style is traditional, with subtle references antiquisantes. The rigor of the marble and the austerity of slate are simply attenuated by the use of coatings colorés.
Contrasting with this style dominating, the casino deploys an expressive architecture of arcades and brick. The villas use half-timberings and overflowing roofs freely characteristic of the towns of villégiature.

Religious heritage

Four very different churches compose the religious heritage of the commune.

; Assouste: The small church of Assouste goes back to the 12th century. Its vault is classified with the historic buildings. ; Aas: The St. Lawrence church was built by the same architect as that of Water-Good. ; Water-good: The parish church Saint-Jean-Baptist Our-Lady-of-Disabled person was built of 1864 to 1875 per Gustave Levy (departmental architect) and Pierre Gabarret (communal architect). ; Gourette: The church Our-Lady-of-Snows of Gourette dates from the last part of the 20th century, it was devoted in 1970 and replaced the vault built in 1937.

Natural heritage

; Gardens and walks Places of relaxation and sociability for the company of the curists, the walks are built to join picturesque sites, cascades, point of view, sources. Perfectly arranged (installed stone retaining walls, bridges, kiosks and benches), bordered of cut boxwood hedges, with ways of quality, their weak slope makes them almost all accessible to the attelages.
The building sites are financed by particular subscriptions in which some of the famous visitors of the station take part. The walks bear for the majority the name of their generous mécènes.
During first half of the 19th century, the walks are stretched in sloping laces on the sides of the forest of Gourzy and go up the small valley of Valentine.
  • the walk Eynard makes it possible to join the source of Orteig close to the bridge which leads to the village of Aas. A second hydropathic establishment, the thermal baths of Orteig, will be built against the bridge and will remain until the years 1970.
  • It is into 1841 that boring begins from the walk Horizontale which exploits the sumptuous panorama of the Green Mountain and the Vallée of Ossau. 1,7 km length, a path prolongs it at its end and joined the road of the Water-Heats.
  • the walk of the Empress is more tardily ordered by Eugenie de Montijo in order to connect the Butte to the Treasury with the cascades of the Large-Beech . “In three days, the layout was delimited on nearly three kilometers and at once put in building site”. Four hundred days laborer, Spanish for the majority, were engaged.
The English Jardin is with the state of outline in 1841. It is before 1855 a badly maintained meadow, crossed by the Deaf person. The torrent, used by the lavender fields, also receives all the rubbish of the close houses. Before crossing the road to throw itself in Valentine, it forms a small pond from where rise night croakings which prevent from sleeping all the bottom of the station. Refitted, the covered Deaf person (it was necessary to dig “ with the shovel and the pickaxe ”.), the garden becomes in 1861 and at the request of the Empress Eugenie de Montijo, the garden Darralde .

Sports events

The commune is located on the way of the 16 {{E}} stage of the Tour de France 2007, a course of 218 kilometers connecting Orthez to Gourette - Collar of Aubisque.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school with Gourette.

Personalities related to the commune

Between the, Water-Good ones knows a ceaseless procession celebrities. During the thermal season of 1872, “two princes, more than fifty marquis and marchionesses, more than fifteen dukes and duchesses, more than seventy counts and countesses, more than sixty barons and baronesses” remained in the thermal spa

; the craftsmen of the rise of Water-Good the

to include/understand the astonishing development of this small village of mountain, it is necessary to raise the crucial role which played the political aristocracy, the financial ones, the doctors and the guides in the transformation of the city into station to the mode of the 19th century. The conjunction of their interests offered to the idle rich person a range constantly renewed of entertainments, money plays, balls, concerts and amusements.
At the beginning of the XIXe century, it is financial Eynard, Jacquemin and Moreau which transform the huts of the village into one charming thermal spa. But the true instigator of this rise will be the imperial couple, Napoleon III and especially Eugenie, accustomed towns of Pyrenean water close to his native Spain. Each summer, the sovereigns attend the most famous stations: Vichy, Plomblières, Baden, Water-Good, Schwalbach, Arenemberg, and especially Biarritz. The fashionable life is brilliant there, the Court moves with the sovereigns, the Courses of Europe prepare their alliances there.

; Fashionable aristocracy

  • the empress Eugenie Maria de Montijo de Guzman, countess of Téba (1826-1920), is undoubtedly the most known host of Water-Good. Its high ranking, its active participation in the installation of the thermal spa, associated with its beauty (it is called the “fair fairy”) and with its kindness, explain of good part her celebrity. She comes seems it for the first time at Water-Good in 1852, accompanied by her mother Mrs. de Montijo and her Francesca sister. The three ladies go down to the post office building, one of oldest of the station.
The grace of Eugenie and its character of most charming, attract many admirors. “ the Spanish young person , written Frederic Violated, was spent with the physique and moral, until the limit of its being, excursionnant, traversing with horse the picturesque roads of this slope of the Pyrenees, being given with the heat of its age to the pleasures of the ball, and, in the intervals of its joys, being enquérant of all its zeal of the sufferings of neighborhood to which it would be possible for him to bring a help or a relief ”. Many are the beggars who await it each morning at the exit of his hotel. One day of the summer 1852, a race organized between French and Spanish Basques sees the victory of the French. Dépitée, Eugenie challenges her compatriots with anger then made roll of the stones which formed a low wall while declaring: “ I demolished France, to avenge my overcome Spain! ”.
The following year, Miss de Montijo marries Napoleon III and becomes thus the empress of the French. She returns later to Water-Good where she goes down to the house from the Government (the current town hall). It is told that in the night of July 19th, 1855, a fire is declared with the post office building. The empress comes then, by her presence, to encourage those which defend against the flames the hotel where, more young person, it went down with her mother. She agreed to return only when any danger was drawn aside, “and after having comforted a boy of the hotel wounded by the fall of a beam”. Its last stay with Water-Good goes back to 1861.
After the capitulation of Sedan (1870), it leaves Paris for the England where it joined Napoleon. Several places recall the stays of Eugenie to Water-Good: the place Holy-Eugenie and the walk of the Empress , the building of the General mutual company of the postal and telecommunications authorities, formerly named old people's home Holy-Eugenie
  • Pierrine Gaston Sacaze (1797-1893), shepherd-botanist, was born with the hamlet from Bagès , above Béost, in Vallée of Ossau. His/her father accepts to send it to the school - paying at the time - to learn how to read, write and count. Pierrine Gaston becomes shepherd but is impassioned for sciences, especially for the flowers which it observes by keeping the sheep. He learns only Latin, language in whom are named the plants. As from 1828, it will constitute herbaria in which it will join together to 2000 plants. Soon its fame is spread and the most famous botanists write to him. The rich person customers of Water-Good, of which the Eugenie empress, listening in talks on the Pyrenees, flora, but also chemistry, astronomy, archeology. One traces even a way since theGood ones, by Aas until Bagès, so that the curists can go to see it. In one of the 13 herbaria which it had carried out finds a plant which it discovered and which bears its name: the Grémil of Gaston , in Latin Lithospermum Gastonii . With the 78 years age, it sells with the town hall Water-Good 13 herbaria and its collection of rocks. One makes of it a museum with his name of alive sound. With the beginning of the year 1920, volumes of the herbarium are dispersed. To date, 12 found volumes were deposited with the " Pyrenean academy of botanique" of Bagnères-with-Bigorre. * Many guides however gained four pennies while going to seek with back of man of the blocks of ice in the firns of the Peak of Ger to refresh drinks of the high society of the thermal spa.

; The historical yearbook An overflight of the visitors or accustomed station gives an outline of the environment which could reign in the thermal city during second half of the 19th century. Doctors, people of the high aristocracy, artists, politicians or adventurers found themselves with Water-Good at the beautiful season, some for professional reasons, others to benefit from the benefits of the cure, others finally to divert itself.

  • Marie-Therese-Charlotte, duchess of Angouleme, known as Mrs Royale (1778-1851): girl of Louis XVI and sister of Louis XVII, her cure is located towards the end of first half of the 19th century.

  • Rosine Bernhardt, known as Sarah (1844-1923): French tragic actress, it made several cures with Water-Good, including one in 1885.

  • Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Sicily, duchess of Berry, (1798-1870) made a cure with Water-Good in first half of the 19th century.

  • Marie-Rosalie Happiness, known as Rosa (1822-1899): celebrate painter of animals and rustic scenes. It was promoted with the rank of the Légion of honor by the Eugenie empress. She came to Water-Good in 1850 with her disciple and friendly Nathalie Mica, with whom she made many excursions with horse in the mountains neighborhood.

  • Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863): painter, painter in watercolours, draftsman and lithographer French, he is considered as leader of the romantic time. He makes several stays with Water-Good in the years 1840 to look after a laryngée affection. The painter Paul Huet accompanies it in 1845. “ nature here is very beautiful, one is to the neck in the mountains and the effects are splendid. ” “ water is good like all water… There is such a passion that it is greater difficulty of placing itself… One only sees elegant, beautiful as of the morning in resplendent ties (…) They make here balls, evenings, as in Paris… I was already driven out more beautiful hotel of the place by the din of the pianos which made dance its ladies up to eleven hours of the evening ”. And finally, writing with George Sand: “ I expected a loneliness and instead of that I find myself in a guêpier in the middle of a mob of people”. He adds preferring further “ natural country, men and women whose costume is charming, the women especially ”.

  • Eugene Devéria (1805-1865): French painter, it was one of the leaders of the romantic school. “ It crunched in keys chatoyantes the dances ossaloises ” and met Pierrine Gaston-Sacaze of which it carried out a splendid portrait.

  • Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880): French writer of the romantic time, it comes at Water-Good the in September 1840. He writes that the road which carries out “ to it curves along the gave, suspended with the rock like a large white lizard ”.

  • Frederic-Guillaume IV, king of Prussia (1795-1861): romantic prince, it makes a cure with Water-Good in first half of the 19th century.

  • Gaston-Phoebus or Gaston III of Foix (1331-1391): certain authors affirm that at the 14th century, it made Acute-Good appointment of hunting. Large fighter and large riding, it is a friend of arts and letters. In 1382, it killed his single son in an access of anger.

  • Antoine-Alfred-Agénor, prince de Bidache, duke of Gramont (1795-1856): French diplomat and politician, it was also named Foreign Minister with the support of the Eugenie empress. At the 16th century, one named “gramontoises” the sources of Water-Good of the surname to which they belonged.

  • Jules Grévy (1807-1891): French politician, he was lawyer, police chief of the Second Republic, deputy and President of the Third Republic.

  • Henri II (1519-1559): king de France, remained according to certain authors in the neighborhoods of theGood ones.

  • Henri IV (1553-1610): king de France and of Navarre. The love life of that which one called the “gallant Green” was animated. The history tells that one day, it takes along in this hidden corner of Béarn two of the young ladies of honor of the queen, Miss de Montmorency-Fosseux, her mistress, and Miss de Rebours who must hold company with the first. In fact, Henri IV offers his “kindness” to the two young ladies who chamaillèrent themselves with which mieux-mieux. Miss de Montmorency is however preferred. Dépitée and driven by the spirit of revenge, Miss de Rebours tells all with the queen, Marguerite de Valois. She declared that these revelations made him “ pour as many tears as the gallant Green and its dulcinée drank water drops where they were ”.

  • Ismaïl Pasha (1830-1895): Khedive of Egypt, it directed several diplomatic missions to France. It is also him which inaugurated the Suez Canal. It goes to Water-Good on July 11th, 1869 when it is accommodated by eighty mountain riders and guides of the station.

  • Marie-Josèphe-Rose Tascher of Pagerie (1763-1814): more known under the name of Joséphine de Beauharnais, empress of the French, she married Napoleon Bonaparte in 1796. Its cure with Water-Good is at the beginning of the 19th century.

  • Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549): sister of François I {{er}}, it likes to come to Water-Good to break with the label. It was one of the women most educated of her time which made court of Navarre one of the hearths of humanity.

  • Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592): French moralist and writer, it comes to probably make a cure with Water-Good during its voyage “of hygiene and approval” and whereas it is to advise at the court of Bordeaux. It calls the sources “gramontoises”, of the surname which had them.

  • Antoine-Marie-Philippe-Louis, duke of Montpensier (1824-1890): French prince and fifth wire of the king Louis-Philippe, it arrives at horse at Water-Good in 1843 (it is then 19 years old) by the Col of Tortes. A delegation of the village comes to accommodate there, with at her head Pierrine Gaston-Sacaze. The shortly after its arrival, it climbs the Pic of the South of Ossau, accompanied by Pierrine Gaston Sacaze, the Esterle guide and ten other guides of the area, a handle the notable ones and a half-dozen of curists more few the other curious ones. On their return, they affirm all to have climbed the famous peak following the young duke. In reality, some were frightened and did not dare to cross the air passages.

  • Sosthène of Rochefoucauld: it remains with Water-Good in 1845.

  • Louis-Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877): politician, journalist and historian French, it was to advise of State, deputy, Minister of Interior Department, Agriculture and Trade then Foreign affairs. It supported the candidature of Louis-Napoleon for the presidency and was also several times Head of government and finally President of the Republic. With Water-Good, it meets Pierrine Gaston Sacaze.

  • (1885-1960): British writer, it lived in Pau of 1920 to 1939, a city in which it had come to reconstitute, with a many British community, an aristocratic lifestyle which disappeared gradually from its native land. In 1937, it decides to make build a house on the road of Aas, a named house " Cockade" in the purest style English cottage. Completed in 1939, the house will not be occupied by its owner: Dornford Yates takes refuge indeed in South Africa until the end of the war. On its return, the environment of France had changed. Disappointed, it turns over with its family to South Africa where it will finish its life. The construction of its house of Water-Good will be the subject of the one of its detective novels The House That Berry Built (London 1946) * The marshal Pétain made a stay in 1925 with English officers. He will confirm later in very other circumstances his attachment for the towns of water.

Born with Water-Good

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