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 284
two encir-cling walls. The square donjon rising in the middle is inthe best style of that magnificent royal builder,Gaston Phoebus, and is reminiscent of theworks of Foulques Nerra in mid-France.There is also a great ogive-arched portal, orgateway, which made still another defence tobe scaled… … Chateau dc Lourdat CHAPTER XIII ST, LIZIER AND THE COUSEEANS Le Pays de Couserans lies in the valley ofthe Salat, in the mid-Pyrenees, hemmed in byFoix, Comminges and Spain. Its name is de-rived from the Euskarans, an Iberian tribe whowere here on the spot in the dark ages. The history of the…
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