Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 213
nd curious industries. On the borderland of this department is the seat of one ofits two Bishoprics, the very ancient town of Aire-sur-1Adour,which lies among hills and gracious little valleys and in 1^2 Gascony. the midst of a civilisation too genial to share the peculi-arities and uncouthness of… … IN THE VERY ANCIENT TOWN OF AIRE-SUR-LADOUR. been noted as Bergerac, the birthplace of a poor, proud,Gascon noble; yet, although a modest, quiet, little city, itfigures in manv of the most dramatic scenes of the historyof Southern France, and from its important strategic posi-tion on the Adour,…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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