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 524
ique fea-ture in civic embellishment. The water-gateat Bordeaux is fine, and so is the Thames Em-bankment in London, and the Battery in NewYork, but those Alices at Bayonne lead themall. The Adour, coursing its way to the sea downthrough Bayonne, was fickle enough one day toleave its bed, and force… … A Gateicav of Bayonne Bayonne 415 of poverty. There came to the rescue one Louisde Foix, the same who had been the architectof Spains Escurial, and in 1579 he harnessedthe waters flow and returned it to its ancientbed. Bayonne glories in the fact that she hasnever submitted to a foreign yoke, and…
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