Brèche-de-Roland, a gorge in the dep. of the Haute-Pyrénées, which, according to tradition, Charlemagne's Paladin of the name of Roland cleft with one stroke of his sword when he was beset by the Gascons.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bréal, Michel * Brechin