File:A tour through the Pyrenees (1875) (14589729870).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,042 × 1,114 pixels, file size: 294 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
The categories of this image need checking. You can do so here.
  • Please remove redundant categories and try to put this image in the most specific category/categories.
  • You can remove this template by clicking here (or on the first line).



Description
English:

Identifier: tourthroughpyren00tain (find matches)
Title: A tour through the Pyrenees
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893 Fiske, John Safford, 1838-1907, (from old catalog) tr Dore, Gustave, 1832-1883, (from old catalog) illus
Subjects:
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
needs. These old wasted mountains, these lacera-ting points, bristling by myriads, these formidablefissures whose perpendicular wall plunges with aspring down into invisible depths ; this chaos ofmonstrous ridges heaped together, and crushing each other like an affrighted herd of leviathans ;this universal and implacable domination of thenaked rock, the enemy of all life, refreshes us afterour pavements, our offices and our shops. Youonly love them from this cause, and this cause
Text Appearing After Image:
removed, they would be as unpleasant to you asto Madame de Maintenon. So that there are fifty sorts of beauty,—one forevery age. Certainly. Then there is no such thing as beauty. That is as if you were to say that a woman is nude because she has fifty dresses.19 CHAPTER IV. CA UTERETS. L Cauterets is a town at the bottom of a valley,melancholy enough, paved, and provided with anoctroi. Innkeepers, guides, the whole of a fam-ished population besieges us ; but we have consid-erable force of mind, and after a spirited resistancewe obtain the xvA\X. of looking about and choos- mo-. Fifty paces further on, we are fastened upon byservants, children, donkey-hirers and boys, whoaccidentally stroll about us. They offer us cards,they praise up to us the site, the cuisine ; they ac-company us, cap in hand, to the very edge of thevillage ; at the same time they elbow away all com-petitors: The stranger is mine, Ill baste you if Chap. IV. CA UTERETS. 291 you come near him. Each hotel has its run

Note About Images

Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Date
Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14589729870/

Author Internet Archive Book Images
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 At the time of upload, the image license was automatically confirmed using the Flickr API. For more information see Flickr API detail.
Flickr tags
InfoField
Flickr posted date
InfoField
29 July 2014

Licensing

[edit]
This image was taken from Flickr's The Commons. The uploading organization may have various reasons for determining that no known copyright restrictions exist, such as:
  1. The copyright is in the public domain because it has expired;
  2. The copyright was injected into the public domain for other reasons, such as failure to adhere to required formalities or conditions;
  3. The institution owns the copyright but is not interested in exercising control; or
  4. The institution has legal rights sufficient to authorize others to use the work without restrictions.

More information can be found at https://flickr.com/commons/usage/.

Please add additional copyright tags to this image if more specific information about copyright status can be determined. See Commons:Licensing for more information.
This image was originally posted to Flickr by Internet Archive Book Images at https://flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14589729870. It was reviewed on 12 September 2015 by FlickreviewR and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the No known copyright restrictions.

12 September 2015

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current03:17, 12 September 2015Thumbnail for version as of 03:17, 12 September 20151,042 × 1,114 (294 KB)Fæ (talk | contribs)== {{int:filedesc}} == {{subst:chc}} {{information |description={{en|1=<br> '''Identifier''': tourthroughpyren00tain ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&fulltext=Search&search=insource%3A%2Ftourthroughpyre...

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:A_tour_through_the_Pyrenees_(1875)_(14589729870).jpg&oldid=778991683"