. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ir tombs have been rifledand desecrated, and the proudest and most beautiful partof the old cemetery is now put to the basest and vilestuses. . France, you see, has broken with her past. Perpignan, when all is said, is not one of those beautifulold towns like Gerona to which one goes for the sheer happi-ness of seeing it; for the Catalans, except for a few years undertheir Majorcan Kings, have never been other than a rude andprovincial people ; yet, if one is there, it can yield one many apleasant hour.
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. ir tombs have been rifledand desecrated, and the proudest and most beautiful partof the old cemetery is now put to the basest and vilestuses. . France, you see, has broken with her past. Perpignan, when all is said, is not one of those beautifulold towns like Gerona to which one goes for the sheer happi-ness of seeing it; for the Catalans, except for a few years undertheir Majorcan Kings, have never been other than a rude andprovincial people ; yet, if one is there, it can yield one many apleasant hour. Some of its old houses are especially charming,by reason of their beauty and of the glimpse they offer into thedomestic Ufe of a bygone age. At the corner of the Rue desAbreuvoirs is the house in which Philip the Hardy lay deadafter his disastrous crusade against Peter of Aragon in the wall of its inner court, at the head of the stairs, areemblazoned in yellow and purple tiles the arms of theMarquis of Llupia, who is now a Spanish subject; but for jxmmmf^ .WJi-^fe,,^.
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