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Title: Rambles in the Pyrenees and the adjacent districts, Gascony, Pays de Foix (and) Roussillon
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton), 1848-1923
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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thers, since it was the fruit of their industry andself-denial. The life of the people is always interesting. Onemorning I saw an old man with a donkey going intoPrades, who, after exhorting him, and even pushing Mmon from behind, lost patience, and hit him three or fourresounding blows with his stick, about the meaningof which there could be no doubt—he meant business.The donkey seemed surprised, and brayed a longishprotest, but thought it wisest to take the hint. Closebehind came two cartloads of peasants and sacks,probably vintagers returning to Spain (men andwomen), for I saw them again at Villefranche. Theyreminded me of Sicily, for I should think there were atleast thirty in the first, a long one with two horses.As they got farther away they burst into song (malevoices only), and at the distance they were it soundedquite well. Prades, a good centre for excursions, is said to be atleast as old as the time of Charlemagne. At theRevolution it was the chief town of the Viguerie of
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en ua < a,(J THE CHURCH AT PRADES 257 Conflent. It belonged anciently to the Monastery ofGrasse, near Carcassonne. At the mairie a judgmentof 865 relative to this possession, and a copy of theoriginal document, are preserved. The church is of atype which is common in the district. It is Gothic instyle, with a single nave of six bays, side-chapels, andan apse ; the eastern and westernmost are ratherbroader than the rest. Over the sanctuary is a lierne-ribbed vault ; the chapels are sometimes quadripartiteand sometimes sexpartite, while the nave vault is apointed waggon-vault, with strengthening arches. Aninscription on a stone outside the sacristy gives thedate of April 27, 1749, and there is a great deal of lateRenaissance work about it. The nave arcade is round-arched, with imposts on the piers, and at the west endis a big organ in a gallery, a rather imposing compo-sition. The reredoses in the side-chapels are all bad,but perhaps the great one above the high-altar is theworst. It

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