A Book of the Pyrenees

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...