. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. of infantry;and in 1905, having meanwhile passed into the hands of itspresent owners, it came into notice for the first time as anEnglish winter resort. Each year since then it has grownin favour and importance, and bids fair now to become oneof the most frequented and delightful of such winterresorts. This singular development in its long history itowes to the genius of M. Emile Kiechle, a charming andversatile little man who has given all his heart, and brain,and enthusiasm, his life almost, to its mak
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. of infantry;and in 1905, having meanwhile passed into the hands of itspresent owners, it came into notice for the first time as anEnglish winter resort. Each year since then it has grownin favour and importance, and bids fair now to become oneof the most frequented and delightful of such winterresorts. This singular development in its long history itowes to the genius of M. Emile Kiechle, a charming andversatile little man who has given all his heart, and brain,and enthusiasm, his life almost, to its making. Under hisauspices, the rude hospitality of Abbot Pouderoux, the simplefare of the old Commandants of Villefranche, have given wayto the comfort and luxury of our own times, and fromNovember to May this little Pyrenean village becomes afragment of England. Its Casino, which is thronged insummer with lively folk from Spain and the Midi of France,is converted into an English club, with the solid comforts ofour own people and some of the lighter graces of the South. a 0 , J S » \ J ^. ON THE ROAD TO CASTEIL {pllgC 75) 5ii»-Sff^^^^^S^J* . -•??~-a|,:,-»y» ./.f*^ ^^p*^-:r„ JBMIilMiiH jj/^g^. THE ROAD TO CASTEIL {page 75) To face page 64 VERNET OF THE ENGLISH 65 In its streets one sees faces, one hears names, that are famousin our own land. It has been visited by Lord Roberts, byRudyard Kipling, by Princess Henry of Battenberg, and itis a fact, I believe, that King Edward VII. himself nearlycame here in the last year of his life. Such are the singularrevolutions of the wheel of Fate. Modern Vernet, like all Gaul, may be divided into threeparts—the old village on the hill, the new quarter which isbuilt about the main highway, and the Etablissement desBains. Humanly speaking there is no distinction betweenthe first two ; the same folk live in both. But architecturally,and from the point of view of the lover of the picturesque,there is all the difference between that w
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