Country France Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques Population (2006) 802 Arrondissement Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques | Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine Canton Nay-Est Area 8.63 km² | |
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Intercommunality Communauté de communes de la Vath Vielha | ||
Lestelle-Bétharram is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
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Map of 64800 Lestelle-B%C3%A9tharram, France
History
In 1832, St. Michel Garicoits established the Society of Priests of the Sacred Heart of Betharram.
On 5 July 1940, Carl Einstein, nephew of the famous physicist Albert Einstein, committed suicide here. An anarchist veteran of the Spanish Revolution, he had been interned in France after the Francoist victory. Although he had escaped in the turmoil following the German invasion of France, he chose death as the solution to an impossible situation.
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