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Welcome to the website of Biarnesa.

Our mission is to satisfy our clients by providing superior quality services.

Biarnesa is a translation agency with office in Porto Alegre, in Brazil.

Biarnesa can help you speak to Brazil. It provides its clients - companies, government organizations and private individuals - with high quality translations into brazilian Portuguese at reasonable price.

Our translators live and work in Brazil, in the country of their own language and translate into their native tongue, immersed in the brazilian culture and in touch with current trends.

Brazilian Portuguese Translation

Our priority is your total satisfaction with our service.

We assure your brazilian Portuguese translation will be of the highest standard by ensuring we only work with qualified and experienced translators in Brazil who have qualifications from establishments which testify to their ability to translate at a high level.

Translators are carefully selected for each project according to their relevant experience and academic qualification and they work into their mother tongue: brazilian Portuguese.

Correctness, Reability and Efficiency

Biarnesa was founded by the descendants of Victor Marc from Béarn in the french Pyrenees.

Our success is attributed to our loyal and dedicated team. We have earned a well-deserved reputation with our clients in countries such as France, Brazil, England, Switzerland and Algeria.

We offer a superior translation service specialising in translations into brazilian Portuguese. We aim to provide our customers - companies or individuals - with high-quality translation services at competitive prices.

Our fast, efficient and user-friendly website will provide you with everything you need to know with regard to our translation services.

Translation Fields

Our translation service covers a wide range of technical fields, including agricultural machinery, linguistics, environment, pedagogy, philosophy, aeronautics, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, chemistry, e-Learning, intellectual property, metallurgy, law, publicity, administration, art, communication, marketing, public relations and the automotive industry to name but a few.

This is just a small sample of the documents we translate: manuals, patents, training courses, brochures, world wide web sites, contracts, articles, reports of board meetings, business texts, general texts, private correspondence...

Instant Estimate Online

You can get a free quote for translation services or order online 24 hours/day.

Our instant online estimator page is designed to give you an estimate of the costs involved in translating your text.

Our team observes our requirements concerning confidentiality.

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.

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 Fance.

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, Irland...

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.

This page is dedicated to the genealogy of Victor Marc from Pau, in Béarn, in France, and Maria Sagebin, from Rio Pardo, in Brazil.

The photo at right shows their family (father - Victor Marc, mother - Maria Sagebin, children and their respective spouses, as well as some of the grandchildren) in Porto Alegre, in Brazil. It was taken about 1920.

Other family names researched include: Casaubon, Cazenave, Cazarré, Leboute, Lafon, Simch, Nunan, Wild, Brandão, Amoretti, among others.

The goal of this page is to provide an overview of the Marc family history from France to Brazil.

The history of the Marc family is inextricably connected to Béarn and to the french Basque Country. Effectively, the maternal family of our ancestor Victor Marc was from Pau, in the french region of Béarn, in France, and his paternal family was from Basque Country.

The Family Marc-Casaubon in Basque Country

Our particular branch of the Marc family originated first in french Basque Country and traces back to 1772 ,when Brice Jacques Marc was born.

The family grew in Biarritz and Cambo-les-Bains, where Brice Marc owned the house Biscotchenia.

Brice Marc and his wife Cathérine Casaubon lived until the end of their lives in Cambo-les-Bains. Their son Joseph Elizabeth Bonnaventure Marc was born in Biarritz, in 1816.

The Family Marc-Cazarré in Béarn

Joseph Marc married Jeanne Cazarré, whose family was from Béarn. They married in Pau.

Jeanne Cazarré was daughter of Jean Cazarré and Magdelaine Cazenave.

Victor Marc, son of Joseph Marc and Jeanne Cazarré, was born in 1854 in Pau and left France to go over to Brazil. He is shown on the photo on the right.

The Family Marc-Sagebin in Brazil

Victor Marc married Maria Manoella Sagebin in 1878 in Porto Alegre, in Brazil. The parents of Maria Sagebin were Édouard Sagebin and Pauline Marguerite Leboute, from Ardennes, in France.

Victor Marc and Maria Sagebin had a large family. The photo on the left shows Victor Marc and his sons, the Marc brothers.

Some of them became known in Porto Alegre, in Brazil, while others not so much, but they all helped to shape the lives of our ancestors.

The Family Marc-Simch : Biarnesa

Victor Marc and Maria Sagebin lived in Brazil and had many children. One of their sons, Oscar Marc, was born in 1897 in Porto Alegre, in Brazil. He is shown on the photo on the right.

His wife, Clélia Nunan Simch, was daughter of Francisco Rodolpho Simch and Alice Brandão Nunan. She was born in Ouro Preto, in Brazil.

The direct descendants of Oscar Marc and Clélia Nunan Simch live nowadays in France and in Brazil.

The brazilian branch of the Marc family - Maria Marc, Maria Suzana Marc Amoretti, Alice Marc and Lúcia Marc Amoretti - founded the translation agency Biarnesa. They always developed cultural activities related to France.

We would be very interested in learning more about the Marc family and of course any details on other branches of the family tree. This helps to bring family history to life and make it more than a list of names.

We await your entries with interest. You can email us at blog@biarnesa.com. We hope you will also send us ideas for what we should include as entries to the same email address above. Please note that posts on the Biarnesa blog are always subject to moderation before appearing on the site.

As well as reading all the entries in our blog, you can also comment on them. Click on “No Comments” or “Comment” in the main body of the site to post and leave a message. This is located below the individual entry to which you would like to contribute. Please be patient. Your comment will appear after Biarnesa reviews and posts your comment.

We hope you like our new Biarnesa Blog!

For those of you who are not familiar with our services, Biarnesa is an international brazilian translation agency based in Brazil.

The purpose of this blog is to stimulate intelligent, focused discussion of topics such as the Béarn region, Brazil, genealogy, translation and french semiotics. Biarnesa hopes to create a forum where people can come together to find relevant information.

So for now we welcome you reading our blog and await your feedback with interest.