Cambo-les-Bains (; eu, Kanbo) is a town in the traditional
Basque
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Pyrénées-Atlantiques
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France
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.INSEE commune file /ref> It lies on the south-western bank of the river
Nive
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.
Cambo-les-Bains station
Cambo-les-Bains or Kanbo Geltokia is a railway station in Cambo-les-Bains, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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has rail connections to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Bayonne.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac ( , ; 6 March 1619 – 28 July 1655) was a French novelist, playwright, epistolarian, and duelist.
A bold and innovative author, his work was part of the libertine literature of the first half of the 17th cen ...
'', came to Cambo-les-Bains because of his pulmonary disease. He was taken by the area and in time bought some land and had a house built. It was completed in 1906. His house, the Villa Arnaga, is now a heritage site and a museum devoted to Rostand's life and Basque architecture and crafts.
The Spanish composer
Isaac Albéniz
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (; 29 May 1860 – 18 May 1909) was a Spanish virtuoso pianist, composer, and conductor. He is one of the foremost composers of the Post-Romantic era who also had a significant influence on his conte ...
died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1909 as well as another significant Spanish composer,
Sebastián Durón
Sebastián Durón (19 April (baptized) 1660 – 3 August 1716) was a Spanish composer.
Life and career
Sebastián Durón Picazo was, with Antonio de Literes, the greatest Spanish composer of stage music of his time. He was born in Brihuega, G ...
, who died there in 1716. The French orientalist
Jean Sauvaget
Jean Sauvaget (27 January 1901 – 5 March 1950) was a 20th-century French orientalist and historian, professor at the Collège de France.
After studying at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales and graduating in Arabic a ...
died in Cambo in 1950. Musical instrument inventor
Georges Jenny
Georges Marcel Charles Jenny (29 April 1913 – 23 September 1975) was a French musician, poet, and electronic instrument builder. His best-known invention was an electronic keyboard instrument called the Ondioline (sometimes referred to as the ...
, who devised the
Ondioline
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, died in Cambo-les-Bains in 1975.
Mixel Labéguerie, a doctor and key figure in Basque culture and politics after
World War II
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lived in Cambo. He was elected mayor of the town for three terms as of 1965, and most notably he is credited as the father figure of the 1960s Basque musical revival. He was also a founding member of the Basque nationalist movement Enbata. In 1980, his memorial service held in Cambo was attended by 4,000 people.
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