I think she is Gascon, and the very opposite of the fair Saxon type we ought to admire at home.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
Get ready," and the next minute the door of the cell was thrown open, and a cheery-looking warder, with a strong Gascon accent, appeared.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
Bernadotte, though ever suspected of Jacobinism and feared for the forceful ambition that sprang from the blending of Gascon and Moorish blood in his veins, was now also treated with the consideration due to one who had married Joseph Bonaparte's sister-in-law: he received at Napoleon's hands the house in Paris which had formerly belonged to Moreau: the exile's estate of Grosbois, near Paris, went to reward the ever faithful Berthier.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose