Cette-Eygun (; ) is a
commune in the
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (; Gascon language, Gascon Occitan language, Occitan: ''Pirenèus Atlantics''; ) is a Departments of France, department located in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest corner of metropolitan ...
department in south-western
France
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.
The famous restaurateur Jean Bergez emigrated from Cette-Eygun to
San Francisco, California
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around 1877. He worked his way up in the restaurant business before becoming one of the proprietors of the acclaimed
Bergez-Frank's Old Poodle Dog in San Francisco.
Its station on the
Pau–Canfranc railway
The Pau–Canfranc railway is a partially-closed long international single-track standard gauge railway line connecting Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region of France, climbing via the Gave d'Aspe valley and tunne ...
was closed after an accident in 1970.
See also
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Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department
The following is a list of the 545 Communes of France, communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 202 ...
References
Communes of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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