A Book of the Pyrenees

A Book of the Pyrenees is by S. Baring-Gould, author of A Book of Brittany and A Book of the Riviera, among other titles. The text says the valleys of the Couserans do not attract many visitors, and that the Pic de Crabère reaches to 7200 feet, that of Mauberme to 8650, that of Roujos to 8340. The text says the principal business of the people in the upper valleys was the training of dancing bears, and that sometimes, when a father married his daughter, he would hand over to his son-in-law as the dot a well-trained Bruin.

Antoine is caught by the arm by the Duchess de Montpensier, who reveals to him the plot, and he summons Reuti, the captain of his guards, to say that he is going to where his death is planned. Jeanne had been the mother of two sons, the elder dying of over-coddling and the second of an accident, and her father, Henry II, insisted on her coming to the castle at Pau for confinement, under his eye. The text says the Count Custine had remained with the Prince of the Asturias in the château of M. de Belsunce.