INDEX

Abd-el-Kader, 88–9

Abderahman, 271

Abdo and Senen, SS., 284–5

Adour River, 42–3

Albigenses, 246–51, 257–8

Amatus, Bishop of Oloron, 115

Ambessa, 270

Ambrose, Père, 168

Andorra, 260–2, 264

Antoine de Bourbon, 96–7, 99, 101–2

Aquitaine, 15, 17, 18, 221–4

Arabs, 265, 269, 270, 296

Aragon, 4, 18, 266, 286–9

Aran, Val d’, 229, 232–4, 266

Argelez, 152–3, 161

Arize, River, 253

Arles-sur-Mer, 298

Arles-sur-Tech, 281, 283–5

Armagnac, 206–10

Arms of Arros, 233

— of Béarn, 98

— of Fontarabia, 47

Arras, 155

Arreau, 206

Arros, Baron d’, 102–3

Arruns, 155–6

Arudy, 125

Ash Wednesday, 293

Aspe, Val d’, 117–8

Asté, 192

Aucun, 155

Aure, Val d’, 201–11

Avalanches, 164–5, 173

Azun, Val d’, 154–7

Bagnères de Bigorre, 187–94

— de Luchon, 229–32

Balandrau, 153

Barcelona, 266, 281

Barrèges, 167, 172–3

Barrère, 184–8

Basque language, 12, 55

Basques, 4, 12–15, 52–4

Bayonne, 32–43

Béarn, 15, 18–28, 76, 90, 95, 97, 98, 102, 109, 122–3, 178, 179, 180–2

Bears, 239–40

Beaucens, 154

Beaudéan, 194

Bedous, 120–1

Beggary, 130, 240–2

Belocq, Castle of, 80

Benedict XIII, 22

Bernadotte, 107–9

Bernard III, Count, 29, 179

Berret, 116, 128

Betharam, 111–12

Biarritz, 44, 144

Bidarry, Saint of, 54

Bidassoa River, 46

Bielle, 103, 127

Bigorre, 15, 115, 178–9, 180–2

— Pic du Midi de, 189–92

Bilhère, 98

Blanche de Navarre, 23–6

Bordères, 210

Boulou, Le, 281

Bourespe, 211

Bourg-Madame, 267

Boxwood, 127

Brèche de Roland, 169

Brinvilliers, Mme. de, 277–8

Buzy, 10, 125

Cabannes, Les, 256–7

Cabestang, William de, 290–1

Cacolet, riding en, 45–6

Cadéac, 211

Cagots, 195–200

Calvinism, 75, 99, 103, 117, 177

Cambo, 53

Campan, Val de, 192–4

Canigou, 8, 272–85

Cannibal, 215–19

Carlitte, Mont, 2, 273

Carnival, 293, 295

Carol, Castle, 265

Castles, small, 259

Catalans, 4, 270, 287, 295

Catherine of Medici, 34–5

— of Navarre, 27–8

Cauterets, 160, 161, 162–6

Celts, 4, 267

Centule I and IV, 115, 179

— II, 179

— III, 179

Cerdagne, 264–71, 286

Ceret, 281–2

Chain of Pyrenees, 2

Chaos, 171

Charles IV of Spain, 36–8

— VII of Spain, 34

— IX of France, 76, 100

— the Noble of Navarre, 23

— of Viana, 22–5

Cirque de Gavarnie, 7, 171–2

Cirques, other, 7, 170

Climate of Pau, 85–7

Coarraze, 99, 111

Collioure, 298–300

Cominges, 15, 221, 226–8

Constans, 296

Constantine, 296

Corisande d’Andouins, 124, 193

Costumes, 128, 270

Count of Spain, 262–3

Couserans, 236–44

Couvade, 46, 64–5

Crestiaas, 199–200

Cromlechs, 127

Customs, curious, 46, 48, 64–5

Dagobert, General, 268–9

Dances, 128, 274

Danton, 186, 188

Deadly sins, 211

Deforesting, 3, 125–6, 173–4, 257

Eaux Bonnes, 131–3

— Chaudes, 129–30

Eleanor of Cominges, 19

— of Guyenne, 16

Elne, 295–8

Emigration, 118, 123, 241

Empressous, 169

Escaldieu, 202

Espadrillos, 123, 285

Espèch, Castle, 205

Estaubé, Cirque, 170

Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine, 265, 270

Ferrage, Blaise, 216–19

Ferreolus, S., 282

Flowers, 9, 44, 112–13, 170–1, 268, 302

Foix, 16, 245–53

Fontarabie, 47–8

Font-Romeu, 269

Fors, 18, 127

Francis I, 90–1

— II, 96

— Phœbus, 27

Froissart, 67, 70, 72

Gabas, 131

Gan, 124

Gargas, 215

Garonne, 229, 234, 245, 266

Garsende the Fat, 19

Gascon braggarts, 28–9

Gascony, 15, 29, 50

Gassion, 106

Gaston VI, 19

— VII, 66

— IX, 19

— Phœbus, 22, 66–72, 128, 202

— son of Phœbus, 68–71, 202

Gavarnie, 171

Gave River, 86, 89, 125, 129, 134, 153, 163, 168, 169, 202

Gèdre, 170

Giants, 169

Gipsies, 295

Glaciers, 6, 134

Goigs, 274

Grammont, Dukes of, 192–3, 301–2

Grotto de l’Herme, 253

Gundowald, 221–5

Hannibal, 4, 290, 295

Haras at Tarbes, 177–8

Hazel-nuts, 282

Hèches, 203

Henry II of England, 16

— III of England, 17

— IV of France, 98, 101–4, 109, 124, 243

— II of Navarre, 87, 90–2, 98

Heptameron, 94, 119–20

Horses, 178–9

Hortense, Queen, 156–7

Huguenots, 92–4, 117, 182, 191, 228.

(See also Calvinism)

Hundred Years’ War, 17

Iberians, 4, 12, 271

Innocent III, 246–50

Iron mines, 255–7

Irun, 48

Isaby, Val d’, 154, 159

Jean d’Albret, 27–8, 90

Jeanne d’Albret, 75–80, 95–101, 112, 117, 177

Job, 242

Joglars, 274, 300

Juana, Queen, 21–5

Jurençon, 113

La Barthe, 203

Labourde, 15, 51–2

Lac de Caillaouas, 202, 210

— — Gaube, 164–5

— — Lanoux, 6, 264

— — Seculéjo, 230–1

Lakes, various, 6, 155, 194, 202, 212, 239, 243, 265

Lampagia, 271

Landslip, 170

Lannemezan, 202

Larrey, 194

Laruns, 179

Laserre, 144

Lavedan, 135, 152–61

League, the, 183

Leonore, Countess, 23–6

Lescar, 26, 104

Leucate, 300

Llar family, 278

Llivia, 266–7

Lombrive, 258

Lomné, castle, 205

Lordat, castle, 258

Lortet, 203

Louis VII, 16

— XI, 208–9, 286

— XIII, 268

— XIV, 47, 285

Lourdes, 134–51

Loustaunau, 121–2

Luchon, 229–32

Luz, 166–9

Majorca, kingdom of, 287–9

Maladetta, 233–4

Manichees, 246

Marble quarries, 203, 233

Marguerite de Cominges, 228–9

— de France, 101, 117

— de Navarre, 91–5, 119–20

Marot, Clement, 93

Mas d’Azil, 253–4

Massabielle, Grotto, 138–47

Massey, 177

Mater Dolorosa, 59

Mauleon, 123

Mauvezin, 201

Merton Smith, Rev., 133

Metrical psalms, 93–4

Montespan, 214

Montgomery, 75, 77–8

Mont Louis, 268–70

Montréjeau, 214

Montségur, 257

Moors, 270

Morlaas, 189

Mosaics, Roman, 104–6

Nansouty, 191–2

Napoleon I, 36–8, 50, 126

Napoleon III, 88, 144, 157, 168

Navarre, 4, 20, 24, 52, 155

Nay, 111

Neste, River, 202–4, 210–11, 220

Noah’s Ark, 268

Odos, 95

Oloron, 4, 114–18

Orthez, 26, 66–79

— Battle of, 80–4

Osse, 122

Osseau, Val d’, 8, 124–33

— peasants of, 109

— Pic du Midi d’, 124, 125, 131

Othman abu Nessu, 270

Oust, 243

Ouzous, 153

Pallada, 283

Pamiers, 251–2

Pampeluna, 56

Pas de Roland, 54

Pattison, Mr. and Mrs., 165

Pau, 85–113

— Castle of, 87–9

Pedigree of the Armagnacs, 210

— of the Viscounts of Béarn, 20

— of Gundowald, 222

— of the Kings of Majorca, 289

— of Leonore of Navarre, 21

Perpignan, 286–94, 301

Petronilla, Countess, 180–1

Pierrefite, 160–1

Planès, 269

Planturel, 244

Pont-long, 87, 109, 123

Ports, 4, 235, 267, 281

Poussatin, Abbé, 301–2

Prades, 275

Prats de Mollo, 285

Princess of Beira, 61–3

Puy-al-Hun, 155–6

Puygcerda, 264

Puyôo, 80

Pyrenees, parallel chains, 2

— geological structure, 4

— approach to, 30–1

— Battles of the, 39

— Treaty of, 47, 55, 234, 265, 266, 287

Quitteria, Ste., 255

Ramond, 190

Raymond I of Bigorre, 162, 182

— VI of Toulouse, 248–50

“Refuge” by Biarritz, 44–5

Republics, 127, 154, 212–13

Roland the Paladin, 56–8, 169

— Song of, 57

Roman Roads, 4, 54

Roncevaux, 4, 27, 56–60

Roussel, Bishop of Oloron, 92, 117

Roussillon, 4, 273, 286–7, 290, 301

Rubble, 5

S. Aventin, 232

S. Béat, 233

S. Bertrand de Cominges, 220–9

S. Girons, 236–7

S. Jean de Luz, 45

S. Jean-Pied-de-Port, 54–5

S. Lizier, 237–9

S. Martin de Canigou, 280–1

S. Michel de Cuxa, 276

S. Orens, 159–60

S. Sauveur, 168

S. Savin, 157–9

S. Sebastian, 48–50

S. Sever-de-Rustan, 177

Salses, 300

Sarracolin, 203–4

Sarrance, 118–20

Serrabonna, 275

Sertorius, 220–1

Simon de Montfort, 249–50

Slate quarries, 195

Smuggling, 60

Solon and his wives, 93

Soubirous, Bernadette, 135, 137–49

Soule, 51, 123

Sully elm, 243

Talc mines, 259

Tarascon, 254

Tarbes, 175–88

Tech, River, 281–2

Templars, 167, 172

Tourmalet, 172

Troumousse, Cirque, 170

Tumuli, 110

Turpin, Chronicle of, 57

Urdos, 122–3

Urgel, 262, 269

Ustaritz, 13

Valcabrères, 220, 225

Vaussenat, 191–2

Vernaux, 259

Vernet, 274, 279–80

Vic, 243

Vicdessos, 256

Viella, 234

Villefranche, 82, 276–9

Vincent, S., 299–300

Vizos, 166

Voltaire, 300–1

Watershed, 6

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