Puycasquier (; ''Puicasquèr'' in Gascon) is a commune in the

Gers Gers (; or , ) is a departments of France, department in the regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Southwestern France. Gers is bordered by the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées and Pyrénées-Atlantiques to ...

department in southwestern

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Geography

Localisation

Hydrography

The river

Auroue The Auroue () is a long river in the Gers, Lot-et-Garonne and Tarn-et-Garonne ''départements'', south western France. Its source is at Crastes, northeast of Auch. It flows generally north. It is a left tributary of the Garonne into which it f ...

flows north-northwest through the western part of the commune.

Population

History

Home to the historic 'Gachet' family. Puycasquier was home to a population of

Cagot The ''Cagots'' () were a persecuted minority who lived in the west of France and northern Spain: the Navarrese Pyrenees, Basque provinces, Béarn, Aragón, Gascony and Brittany. Evidence of the group exists as far back as 1000 CE. The name th ...

s previously.

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