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 558
he Pont de Behobie,or by a boat across the Bidassoa. The firstmeans is the most frequented; for a piecette— that is to say a piece blanche of Spanishmoney, which has the weight and appearanceof a franc, but a considerably reduced value —one can cross by train; a boatman will takeyou for half the… … The Frontier at Hendaye middle bearing the respective arms markingthe limits of the territorial rights of each. This is one of the most curiously ordainedfrontiers in all the world. The people of Ur-rugne in France, twenty kilometres distantfrom the frontier, can hold speech freely intheir mother…
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