. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . rding totradition, Narbonne was Christianized by SergiusPaulus, a disciple of S. Paul. The Archbishops wereprimates of Gallia Narbonensis, and presidents of theEtats de Languedoc from the end of the thirteenthcentury. The archbishopric was suppressed in 1790,and the title of Archbishop of Narbonne and Primateis now attached to the Archbishopric of Toulouse,though Narbonne is part of the diocese of Sebastian was a native of the city, as were severalEmperors of the third century. We had
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . rding totradition, Narbonne was Christianized by SergiusPaulus, a disciple of S. Paul. The Archbishops wereprimates of Gallia Narbonensis, and presidents of theEtats de Languedoc from the end of the thirteenthcentury. The archbishopric was suppressed in 1790,and the title of Archbishop of Narbonne and Primateis now attached to the Archbishopric of Toulouse,though Narbonne is part of the diocese of Sebastian was a native of the city, as were severalEmperors of the third century. We had here an example of the memory of thewaiters, which shows that they are as well endowed inFrance in that particular as in Italy. On our firstvisit we only stayed a day in our hotel, but on returningnext year the landlord greeted us as old friends, andthe waiter who had waited on us brought a bottle ofred wine and set it on the table by me, and a whiteone by my companion. I said : No ; that isntright ! Ah ! he replied ; I remembered that onetook red wine and one white, but I couldnt remember. NORl III AISLE OF S. \.\V\. NAR150NNK. lo face page J38. THE WAITERS MEMORY 339 which ! At Perpignan the same year we went intothe hotel where we had stayed before to a time an oldish waiter came up to me, and said, I beg your pardon, sir, but werent you here lastyear ? I said, Yes, upon which he slapped histhigh in great dehght. * Ah ! said he ; I bettedwith that waiter over there that you were. He saidyou hadnt been here before. Bj^ziers. Beziers lies some fifteen miles east of Narbonne onthe Orb, about eight miles from its mouth, and crownsa hill from the summit of which the Cathedral ofS. Nazaire dominates the landscape. A town ofCeltiberian origin, it was the capital of the Biterri,and was colonized by the Romans under the name ofBeterrae Septimanorum. From that time onward ithas been celebrated for its wines, which still find a goodmarket, and also has a large tr
Size: 1340px × 1865px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecad, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyear1912
