. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . -stream as well as up, portions of the abutment on eachside, and a bit of the arch in the stream, most of it cutstone. Joanne says they are Roman work; to methey looked medieval. Nearly opposite is the originalmineral spring. It is the abbey and its appurtenances, however,which one goes to see at Alet, the foundation of whichreaches back to the early years of the ninth was in 813 that Bera, Count of Razes, with his wifeBomille, founded it, placing it under the rule of and the di
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . -stream as well as up, portions of the abutment on eachside, and a bit of the arch in the stream, most of it cutstone. Joanne says they are Roman work; to methey looked medieval. Nearly opposite is the originalmineral spring. It is the abbey and its appurtenances, however,which one goes to see at Alet, the foundation of whichreaches back to the early years of the ninth was in 813 that Bera, Count of Razes, with his wifeBomille, founded it, placing it under the rule of and the direct jurisdiction of the Church ofRome. The Abbots often had to address the Holy Seefor solemn confirmation of their privileges and domin-ions, obtaining several Bulls to this effect in thetwelfth century. The name is a corruption of Coeno-bium loci electi, or Electense. The dedication was tothe Virgin. In 1096 it was visited by Urban II. onhis way from Carcassonne and Toulouse after theCouncil of Clermont, and in the fourteenth centuryJohn XXII. erected the abbacy into a bishopric, trans-. THE ABBEY CHURCH 215 ferred from Limoux. It was a good deal damagedduring the wars of religion, especially in 1577, but inthe seventeenth century the bishopric was held by theaustere Jansenist, Pavilion, friend of S. Vincent dePaul. The church is now entirely in ruins, thoughworks of repair have been carried out of late years, andthe fabric seems secure. It is a parallelogram, with a five-sided apse, atransept very slightly projecting and half destroyed,and towers on each side about the middle of the nave,built of a reddish-brown stone, with regularly cutblocks. The inside measurement is about 145 feet inlength, of which 26 feetbelong to the is about 20 feetbroad across the apse,with two Corinthian piers,with very fine caps, sup-porting the arch. Thetransepts are about 82feet across, and the naveand aisles about 32 feet. The apse has five sides,with a round-headed, vaulted nic
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