Eugène Goyheneche, Président du Comité Ibañeta pour la ; Commémoration du douzième centenaire de la Victoire des ; Basques contre Charlemagne à Roncevaux en 778

Truffaut, Thierry

Publication year:

2001

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISBN:

84-8419-929-0

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Summary

At the end of 1976, and in spite of his illness and his work overload, assumed the presidency of the Ibañeta Committee for two years in order to organise the commemorations of the twelfth centennial of the victory of the Basques in ; Roncesvalles, on 15 August 778, against Charlemagne. This Committee undertook ; various actions asserting from the beginning that they belonged to the Basque ; world with the will of recovering the historical truth that has often been scoffed at by the legend of Roldán. Everybody still remembers the fires lit in the mountains and the extraordinary commemorative day near the battlefields on 15th August 1978 with the "Ibañeta" pastoral.