. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . e a well sunk at the bottom of a ravine, ofwhich only the chapel remains, in a ruinous was but fifty then, and died, disgusted with thepleasures and splendours of which he had so great ashare, nine years after. He was buried in the samechurch as his little son. Jeanne dAlbret established a Calvinist Universityin the town to reward the people for their attachmentto the Reformed faith, in which Theodore de Bezawas professor at one time. A portion of the buildingsremains (added to in the sixtee
. Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix [and] Roussillon . e a well sunk at the bottom of a ravine, ofwhich only the chapel remains, in a ruinous was but fifty then, and died, disgusted with thepleasures and splendours of which he had so great ashare, nine years after. He was buried in the samechurch as his little son. Jeanne dAlbret established a Calvinist Universityin the town to reward the people for their attachmentto the Reformed faith, in which Theodore de Bezawas professor at one time. A portion of the buildingsremains (added to in the sixteenth century). Downby the bridge are many medieval and early Renais-sance houses, and the road to the Castle is lined withthose of a slightly later date. The most important,perhaps, is that said to have been Jeanne dAlbrets, afine sixteenth-century building, well preserved exter-nally, but surrounded by factories and stores of a verymodern type. The church is of the end of the twelfthcentury in the lower portions of the walls, but fourteenthand fifteenth century for the most part, and has a. HOUSE OF JEANNE D ALBRET, ORTHEZ. UNUSUAL FIGURES 89 modern tower and spire. It consists of nave andtransepts, with a polygonal apse and side the porch below the tower is an ornamenteddoor. It stands by the side of the market-place,beyond which is a pleasant stretch of green, dottedwith shady trees, under which oxen lie ruminating onmarket-days, with the vehicles they have drawn closeby, for Orthez is the chief place of the arrondissement,and every Tuesday is full of market folk. There arevery few survivals of costume, but we saw one oldfellow with a round hat, stockings and sandals, a deeppurple cummerbund, and a lightish blue blouse. Hewore blue drawers with velveteen breeches unbuttonedat the knee, the drawers puffed out over his stockings,and the unusual combination of colour and light anddark caught the eye, reminding one of costumes seenin Spain many years ago, when trave
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