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Salies-de-Béarn
Salies-de-Béarn is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water ( Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.
Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The Summer of Katya. In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.