Background
Garros was born at Lectoure, France.
Garros was born at Lectoure, France.
He studied law, theology, and Hebrew at the University of Toulouse and served as the avocat-général of Pau for a time.
He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language. He strove to restore the Gascon dialect to prominence, translating the Psalms of David in 1565 into Gascon dialect, and publishing a volume of Gascon poetry (Poesias gasconas) in 1567. He died in Pau. She also ordered another version in bearnese dialect to Arnaud de Salette.
Poesias Gasconas from the National French Library"s gallica.bnf.fr website.