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Our Origins: the Béarn Region
We are the Marc family - a brazilian family originally from Béarn, wherefrom the name of our translation agency.
Biarnesa means the woman from Biarn or Béarn, in the Atlantic Pyrenees, in the region of Aquitaine, in France.
Our logo represents a woman from Béarn, most precisely a woman from the Ossau Valley, wearing a traditional costume with the colours of the flag of Béarn: red and yellow.
Why the Béarn Region ?
You are certainly curious about the connexion between our translation agency and the region of Béarn. 
The original family of Victor Marc, our ancestor from Béarn, has changed. Nowadays we, the descendants of his son Oscar Marc, have different origins: Italie, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Ireland...
We are proud of our different origins but we are today a brazilian family.
We admire Brazil for its regional diversity whose beauty is to be discovered and for its people's qualities of love towards family.
However, our patriarch Oscar Marc remains a strong influence on our family, if compared to other ascendants, which is evident through our love to Béarn. Thus our connexion to Béarn are clear, specially regarding the strong family cohesion, respect towards family and transmitting the family name Marc. 
Besides, the union between Oscar Marc and Clélia Nunan Simch describes the intense friendship between a family from Béarn and a family with strong influence from Germany and Austria. An example of harmonic coexistence between cultures in our brazilian society.
The photo on the right shows our ascendant Oscar Marc (on the left of the photo), son of béarnais Victor Marc, and his brother-in-law Léo Nunan Simch (on the right of the photo), grandchild of the couple Wild-Simch, from Germany and Austria respectively.
The Béarn Region in Europe
We do not intend to tell you all about the Béarn region. We only hope these pages will arouse your curiosity about Béarn.
Thus, we aim to present succinctly the Béarn region in the region of Aquitaine.
Pau is the capital of the Béarn region, which is very active in the field of aeronautics, chemistry, agro-industry, energy and petrol.
The metropolitan region of Pau represents the third economic pole in the South West of France and its number of inhabitants amounts approximately 140.980.
The Béarn is a region at the heart of the European area, surrounded by cities such as Toulouse, Bordeaux and Saragossa, facing a dynamic transition between tradition and modernity.
In the ever evolving tourism market place, services are continually reviewed and improved to keep pace with the growing expectations of their visitors. 
According to the website of the British Embassy in France , 88% of French maritime pine is produced in Aquitaine. The agriculture accounts for 5.3% of the region's added value. Leading products are wine, maize and fruit, being Aquitaine one of the top French export's regions. The region provides 30% of France "appellation contrôlée" wine, producing world-famous wines such as Médoc, Saint-Emilion, Château Margaux, Château Yquem, Pomerol and Pétrus. Chemicals and Healthcare industries represent 17% of regional exports. The Region is leader for the production of natural gas.
The Béarn Region of Victor Marc
Our ancestor Victor Bertrand Marc was born in 1854 in Pau, in the Béarn Region in France.
From 1820 until 1920, emigration to America has grown in importance due to the deteriorating socio-economic conditions in the region of Béarn, despite the initiatives of Minister Guizot to promote manufacturing sector, specially tablecloth, handkerchief and beret manufacturing, as well as the initial start of tourism activity.
The Béarn region could be depicted as immobile or petrified during this period called by historians "the immobility century".
Pau is the birthplace of King Henry IV. As soon as the infant was born, his lips were smeared with garlic and Jurançon wine, which became a traditional custom.
From 1856 to 1858, the vineyards of Béarn were infected by oidium, and the harvest were destroyed, so there was a lot of poverty.
As we began to analyse the circumstances which Victor Marc experienced,we discovered the difficulties he probably faced at that time: the difficulties in agriculture in general, the epidemics of diseases of the vines, as well as the initial weakness of industry and tourism.
Considering the declining standards of living at the time of our ascendant, we may conclude that part of the population in Béarn tended to be pushed out by the adverse conditions in their country of origin.
At the light of this data, we may admit the hypothesis that our ancestor Victor Marc left his country due to a well-founded fear of feeling that he was living in an unstable society.
The Diaspora in Béarn
Besides our translation services, we aim to promote and use the internet as a communication tool to enhance the comprehension of the complex processes involved in the emigration from Béarn to America.
A Cosmopolitan Perspective of Tradition
We specially thanks Arnaud Lavignolle for his exceptional cultural contribution. The family Lavignolle received a Vermeil Medal for their fidelity to Béarn. Arnaud Lavignolle is very aware and proud of his origins. Moreover, Arnaud Lavignolle is a gourmet Chef of international reputation which offers tasty insight into the world of gastronomy from Béarn. Without culture, strongly preserved in his family, his cultural values would not have retained the memories of the rich traditions forming the heritage of the Béarn region. We can consider Arnaud Lavignolle a cosmopolitan
citizen, due to the merging of his culture from Béarn with other cultures in the world, creating a new cosmopolitan tradition and forming the basis of a stimulating and cosmopolitan atmosphere for the exchange between cultures.
