. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. MARBLE PORCH AT VILLEFRANCHE [page lOo). APSE OF THE OLD CHURCH AT CORNEILLA {page 98) To face page > A DAY IN VILLEFRANCHE 99 brown face and patient air. Poor he was, unquestionably,but rich in his enjoyment of the morning sunHght. Thusdoes Heaven make all men equal. Presently I entered the old fortress by the Porte deFrance. Here the Cadi, guarded by outflanking towersand bastions, flows under the loopholed walls to its junc-tion with the Tet. The heavy iron-studded doors arecovered with dust, and a
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. MARBLE PORCH AT VILLEFRANCHE [page lOo). APSE OF THE OLD CHURCH AT CORNEILLA {page 98) To face page > A DAY IN VILLEFRANCHE 99 brown face and patient air. Poor he was, unquestionably,but rich in his enjoyment of the morning sunHght. Thusdoes Heaven make all men equal. Presently I entered the old fortress by the Porte deFrance. Here the Cadi, guarded by outflanking towersand bastions, flows under the loopholed walls to its junc-tion with the Tet. The heavy iron-studded doors arecovered with dust, and are no longer barred. The massivepulleys and chains behind lie idle. Straight before one runsthe High Street of Villefranche, narrow and flanked withtall houses, and abandoned, at this season, to cold shadow bythe winter sun. It runs past the local inn, which in bygonedays, when troops were quartered here and Villefranche wasthe seat of the prefecture, must have known now, like a good and self-respecting French inn, it hasa local reputation, which it endeavours to maintain. Can one lunch in Villefranche ? I ask
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