JEAN Michel Agasse

‘People from the Pyrenees in Argentina’

The author, an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Pau, is a member of the ABAU (Association Bigorre Argentine Uruguay), founded in 2003.

Drawing on the diaries of a great-aunt, he recounts in this ‘biografiction’ the adventures of his family, originally from the Aure Valley, as they set out for the 19th-century ‘new El Dorado’: Argentina. From Anères to Buenos Aires!

A thoroughly researched work, combining family sources, personal accounts and period archives.  Readers are drawn into the stories of the Azum family’s exile, particularly that of the first emigrant who set off in 1886.