. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. in after-years, before he perished on a Paris scaffold, wrote the littleidyll, II pleut, bergere, il pleut, and invented that FloralCalendar, which might well, from its beauty and aptness,have survived the Revolution. Even to-day Carcassonne, though given over to com-mercialism, has not lost its love for poetry, its appreciationof dramatic art. I have seen five thousand people assembledthere on a summer night in June, the open sky above a galaxyof stars, and immersed in the tragic fate of King Lear asunf
. Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne. in after-years, before he perished on a Paris scaffold, wrote the littleidyll, II pleut, bergere, il pleut, and invented that FloralCalendar, which might well, from its beauty and aptness,have survived the Revolution. Even to-day Carcassonne, though given over to com-mercialism, has not lost its love for poetry, its appreciationof dramatic art. I have seen five thousand people assembledthere on a summer night in June, the open sky above a galaxyof stars, and immersed in the tragic fate of King Lear asunfolded in the great amphitheatre under the battlements ofPhilip le Hardi and the Gothic pinnacles of its old Cathedralof St. Nazaire. One can scarcely imagine a more romanticsetting, and it were worth while going to Carcassonne ifonly to share in this wonderful experience. GULF OF £10 NS (S SL Mererbrc OF THE Bastbmm Pymbkbbs TO ILLUSTRATE de Creiis travels in the Pyrenees BY V. C. SCOTT OCONNOR Boundary between France & Spain -_ Boundaries of Provinces RailwaysRoads Scale of Miles. SOUTHERN (MIDI) RY 5 0 IS 2S> 2S K/iometres Copyright Published by^ Joitn lon^ L^.. Londctf GULF OFL I 0 N S
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