Basset Bleu de Gascogne. Another French basset from Gascony, the area south of Bordeaux. Although it is a tricolor dog, its body is predominantly white, tan only above the eyes, on the cheeks and the underside of the ears. The white is heavily ticked, which gives it a "bluish" appearance. In the 1950s in American studbooks we can still find numerous "blue bassets." Although these "blue bassets" were bred out of the breed, there are many bassets today who are predominantly black and white with heavy ticking and tan markings above the eyes.