The end of Basque home rule or foruak/fors, the native institutional and legal system, took place during the French revolutionary period. The final violent dissolution of the semi-autonomous Basque in
Dominique J. Garat, last representative of Labourd and chief official in Paris
Memorial plaque inside the St. Martin church to a victim of the 1793-1795 repression (Sara, Labourd)
Soule is a former viscounty and French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées-Atlantiques département. It is divided into two cantons of the arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, and a part of
Mauléon, capital of Soule
The pastoral of Soule sinks its roots in the Middle Ages