Fougasse (bread) Fougasse (bread) In French cuisine, fougasse is a type of bread typically associated with Provence but found (with variations) in other regions. Some versions are sculpted or slashed into a pattern resembling an ear of wheat. In ancient Rome, "panis focacius" was a flatbread baked in the ashes of the hearth ("focus" in Latin). This became a diverse range of breads that include "focaccia" in Italian cuisine, "hogaza" in Spain, "fogassa" in Catalonia, "fugàssa" in Ligurian, "pogača" in the Balkans, pogácsa in Hungary, "fougasse" in Provence (originally spelled "fogatza"), "fouace" or "fouée" in other French regions and on the Channel
Guilla of Provence Guilla of Provence Guilla (or "Willa") of Provence or Burgundy (died before 924) was an early medieval Frankish queen in the Rhone valley. It is certain that she was the first consort of Rudolf I of Upper Burgundy (who was proclaimed king in 888 and died on 25 October 911) and later, from 912, consort of Hugh of Arles, border count of Provence, who in 926 became king of Northern Italy. Everything else in her genealogy is more or less uncertain. She is believed to have been a daughter of Boso of Lower Burgundy (Provence), and she is presumed to