. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. helps to turn the lathes of a pipefactory, which is lodged in an old building heavy withwistaria and distinguished by a solemn cypress-tree. Thereis a place, dappled with light and shade, and proud of itsmonument to a hero of St. Pol, who became a ChevaHer ofthe Legion of Honour at twenty-one, and died amidst thesnows of Russia, after taking part in some of the greatest ofNapoleons campaigns. You can see his portrait here inbronze, and it speaks eloquently of those great bj^gone times,and carries one awa
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. helps to turn the lathes of a pipefactory, which is lodged in an old building heavy withwistaria and distinguished by a solemn cypress-tree. Thereis a place, dappled with light and shade, and proud of itsmonument to a hero of St. Pol, who became a ChevaHer ofthe Legion of Honour at twenty-one, and died amidst thesnows of Russia, after taking part in some of the greatest ofNapoleons campaigns. You can see his portrait here inbronze, and it speaks eloquently of those great bj^gone times,and carries one away, as if by magic, from the fierce sunlightof St. Pol to the white frozen banks of the Borodino, andto the rank and file of the Old Guard, drawn up under thewatchful eyes of the little man in the green cut-away coatand cocked hat, who held them all, as he held Europe, underthe spell of his amazing genius. No wonder St. Pol is proudof its share in those great achievements. There is the Chapitre, with its octagonal stone cupola,and its once beautiful chapel, now used as a barn, with hay. OLD FEUDAL CHATEAU OF PUYLAURENS {page 324)
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