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The chevalier de Béla

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Posted on 2018-07-27 in
La pastoral suletina de 2018 escenificación popular de la historia del caballero de Bela. Fotografía de Gilles Choury

The 2018 pastoral of Zuberoa: popular staging of the story of the chevalier de Béla. Photograph by Gilles Choury taken from larepubliquedespyrenees.fr.

The 2018 pastoral play will be performed in Mauléon-Licharre on 29 July and 5 August and tells the story of one of its most illustrious sons: Jean-Philippe de Béla, born on 8 July 1709 and known as le chevalier de Béla.

At the age of eighteen he departed from Mauléon to enrol Louis XV of France’s army and in 1731 was sent to Sweden as an undercover agent. He was appointed lieutenant colonel, later a member of the order of St Louis, and had a somewhat troubled military career, taking an active part in the Polish and Austrian succession wars. (more…)

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