Salies-de-Béarn (French pronunciation: [sali də beaʁn], literally Salies of Béarn; Occitan: Salias) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.^[3]

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Salies-de-Béarn
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Location of Salies-de-Béarn
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Coordinates: 43°28′16″N 0°55′30″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Thierry Cabanne[1]
Area 1	52.08 km2 (20.11 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	4,545
• Density	87/km2 (230/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64499 /64270
Elevation	28–202 m (92–663 ft) (avg. 56 m or 184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the expanded, pre-liberation occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.

Between September 1941 and the summer of 1942, Jean Anouilh wrote his famous adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone in the comparatively idyllic setting of Salies-de-Béarn, relieved of the invader's presence, the evening curfews and the deprivations of Paris. The play premiered in Occupied Paris in February 1944.

Salies-de-Béarn served as the setting for the writer Trevanian's novel, The Summer of Katya. In the book, it was renamed Salies-les-Bains.

An account of living and working in Salies-de-Béarn in the late sixties is given by Clive Jackson in his book Footloose in France.^[4]

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department