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 260
4it n Oround Plan of the ChMeau de Fi The actual age of the monument covers manyepochs. The two square towers and the mainedifice, as seen to-diiy, are anterior to the thir-teenth century, as i« proved by the design inthe seals of the Comtes de Foix of 1215 and1241 now in the Bibliotheque Nationale… … Foix and Its Chateau 191 In the fourteenth century these towers werestrengthened and enlarged with the idea ofmaking them more effective for defence andhabitation. The escutcheons of Foix, Beam and Com-minges, to be seen in the great central tower,indicate that it, too, goes back at least to theend…
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