Castles and chateaux of old Navarre and the Basque Provinces, including also Foix, Roussillon and Béarn (1907)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L.C. Page & Company · leaf 153
Caroig, perhaps the Quer-Roig.The name now applies, however, only to a massof ruins on the summit of a near-by mountainof the same name. Not every one in the neigh-bourhood admits this, some preferring to be-lieve that the same heap of stones was once Roussillon and the Catalans 109 a signal tower… … Once Perpignan was a fortified town of thefirst class, but now, save for its old Citadelleand the Castillet, its warlike aspect has dis-appeared. One of Gny de Maupassants heroes, havingbeen asked his impressions of Algiers, replied,^ Alger est une ville hlanche! If it had beenPerpignan of which he…
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