de la Marca_, but more often still under that of _M.

de la Marque_, "with the object, no doubt, of making him a Frenchman" ("_dans la vue sans doute de le franciser_").

(_Vie du Cardinal d'Ossat_, tome i., p.

319.) "To recall their origin, the branch of Magnoac to-day write their name _Marque-Marca_.

If the Marca of the historian belongs to Bearn, the Lamarque of the naturalist, an orthographic name in principle, proceeds from Bigorre, actually chosen (_designee_) by _Lamarcq, Pontacq, or Lamarque pres Bearn_.