A Tour Through The Pyrenees

A Tour Through The Pyrenees

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

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A Tour Through The Pyrenees by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine

A Tour Through The Pyrenees Chapter 1 -FROM LUZ TO BAGNèRES-DE-BIGORRE...389

" II.-BAGNèRES-DE-BIGORRE..............412

" III.-THE PEOPLE......................420

" IV-THE ROAD TO BAGNèRES-DE-LUCHON....468

" V-LUCHON.............................485

" VI.-TOULOUSE.........................509

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE PINES.....................................003

THE RIVER AFTER A STORM.......................004

THE PINES NEAR ROYAN..........................007

THE BROAD RIVER...............................009

BORDEAUX......................................010

TAIL-PIECE....................................011

LES LANDES....................................012

LES LANDES (SECOND VIEW)......................014

TAIL-PIECE....................................016

A STREET IN BAYONNE...........................018

BAYONNE HARBOR................................019

Pé DE PUYANE..................................022

THE BURNING CASTLE............................025

HEAD-PIECE....................................035

THE PIERCED ROCK..............................036

TAIL-PIECE....................................039

THE VILLA EUGENIE.............................040

CLIFFS NEAR SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ.................042

COAST NEAR SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ..................045

TAIL-PIECE....................................046

LOUIS XIV. AND ANNE OF AUSTRIA................047

THE POLITENESS OF TO-DAY......................048

THE POLITENESS OF OTHER DAYS..................049

"JE VOUS LE RENDS."...........................053

A SPLENDID CREATION...........................054

DAX...........................................057

CASTLE OF ORTHEZ..............................061

FROISSART.....................................062

"THAT STOUT CORNIFIC DOCTOR"..................066

COUNT DE FOIX AT SUPPER.......................068

THE COUNT DE FOIX'S HOSPITALITY...............071

A FRENCH "CONDUCTOR"..........................072

"FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE DO NOT KILL GASTON"........074

GASTON IN THE TOWER OF ORTHEZ.................076

COUNT DE FOIX.................................077

TAILPIECE.....................................078

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