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'Pey de Garros' (b. 1530, Lectoure, France - d. 1585, Pau) was a Provençal poet who was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language.
Garros studied law, theology, and Hebrew at the University of Toulouse and served as the ''avocat-général'' of Pau for a time. He strove to restore the Gascon dialect to prominence, translating the Psalms of David into the dialect in 1565 and publishing a volume of Gascon poetry (''Poesias gasconas'') in 1567.