Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 175
ve on, skirting past ■58 Languedoc. Palavas. The delightful avenue of lindens is left behindand, along the white road, there is scarcely a tree to shade.As far as the eye can reach it is dazzled by sun and sand, bya vast, monotonous expanse of low-land, swamp, and sea.And as they still jog on, he… … an outline, dark against the southern sky.—maguelonne. Neither can he picture the later Christian town destroyedby the Saracens; the Alaguelonne which rose from its ashes,and unlike Langostalo, Glanum, and Elusa, regained itslost prestige. Coming down the years, he recalls whenPope Urban II, who…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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