Category: Travel Writing

A Book of the Pyrenees

The wall of division--A triple chain--Contrasts--Deforesting-- The Catalan of Roussillon--The Basque of Navarre--Roman roads-- The three ports--Central ridge--Trough to the north--Watershed-- Glacial moraines--Lakes--Cirques--Abrupt termination of the lower valleys--Cave dwell...

Chapters

6. CHAPTER VI

Situation--Climate--Stillness of the air--Castle--Abd-el-Kader-- Thackeray on his imprisonment--View of the Pyrenees--Henry II of Navarre--His escape from Pavia--Marguerite des...

20. CHAPTER XX

County of Roussillon--Devastated by war--Tortured by the Inquisition--United to France--Given up--Removal of the Bishopric from Elne--Final annexation to France--Capital of the...

15. CHAPTER XV

Montréjeau--A bastide--Grotto de Gargas--A cannibal--Blaise Ferrage--Taken and escapes--Final capture--Execution--S. Bertrand de Cominges--Sertorius--Gundowald--His coronation--...

3. CHAPTER III

Approach to the Pyrenees--Colour of the mountains--Bayonne-- Cathedral--Attachment of Bayonne to the English--Quarrels with Norman towns--Taken by the French--Bayonets--Meeting...

5. CHAPTER V

Court of the counts of Foix--Froissart--Gaston Phœbus--Kills his son--And a cousin--Death of Phœbus--Evan de Foix--The bastards of Phœbus--Tragic death of Evan--Bridge over the...

17. CHAPTER XVII

Department of Ariège--Watershed--The counts of Foix--Raymond Roger--The Albigenses--Abuses in the Church--Manicheism-- Council of Albi--Innocent III--Murder of Peter of Castelna...

9. CHAPTER IX

Line from Lourdes turns north--Argelez glacier--The Lavedan-- The Seven Valleys--Lourdes of old--The castle--Held by the English--Attacked by the Duke of Anjou--Held by Saracens...

19. CHAPTER XIX

The Canigou a supreme effort of the Pyrenees before dying down-- The Corbières--Ballad--_Goigs_--Catalonian dances--Prades-- Priory of Serrabonna--S. Michel de Cuxa--Villefranch...

4. CHAPTER IV

Four valleys--The Basque land--Quarrels with Bayonne--The Sieur de Puyane--Cambo--Itxasson--Pas de Roland--Stalagmitic saint--S. Jean-Pied-de-Port--The first book in Basque-- Pa...

12. CHAPTER XII

Tarbes an uninteresting place--A large village--Inglis on the view--Jardin Massey--Cloister of S. Sever--Horses--The Haras-- Counts of Bigorre--Petronilla and her five husbands-...

11. CHAPTER XI

Springs of Cauterets--La Raillère--Taine on Cauterets--Double _clientèle_--Pont d’Espagne--Lac de Gaube--Drowning of Mr. and Mrs. Pattison--Avalanches--Ravine to Luz--Val de Bar...

2. CHAPTER II

The province of Gascony--Protest against inclusion in Aquitaine--Union of Béarn, Foix, and Bigorre--Navarre-- Interest of Gascony to English people--Gascony annexed to the Crown...

1. CHAPTER I

The wall of division--A triple chain--Contrasts--Deforesting-- The Catalan of Roussillon--The Basque of Navarre--Roman roads-- The three ports--Central ridge--Trough to the nort...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Before the train reaches the dreary moorland of Lannemezan, on its way from Tarbes to Toulouse, a glimpse is obtained of a picturesque village grouped about a castle on a pointe...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Visitors and residents--Pic du Midi--Ramond--Springs--Captain Lizier--Observatory--Vaussenat and Nansouty--Death of the former--Val de Campan--Château d’Asté--The Grammont famil...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Looking south from the terrace at Pau one sees a noble portal in the mountain chain apparently leading to the roots of the Pic du Midi d’Ossau. But it is a mistake to suppose th...

10. CHAPTER X

A funicular railway takes a visitor to the top of the Pic de Gers, whence he can obtain a fine comprehensive panorama of the mountains. A cross surmounts the peak that is illumi...

7. CHAPTER VII

Oloron is the ancient Iluro, in Gallo-Roman times one of the twelve cities of Novempopulania, and of importance as the key to the passage of the Pyrenees by the Val d’Aspe over...

16. CHAPTER XVI

Cobweb of lines--The Viscounty--S. Lizier--S. Girons--S. Lizier a double town--Two cathedrals--Bishop Bernard--His palace--S. Marie de la Sède--The other cathedral--Bridge and i...

18. CHAPTER XVIII

Col de Puy Morens--Etang de Lanous--Many lakes--Dreary country-- River of Carol--Dam of Quès--County of Cerdagne--Divided at the Peace of the Pyrenees--Llivia--Ceretani--Bourg-M...