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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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those days. It wasafter this that a restoration was undertaken, and thenfragments of the cloister of the Carmes at Trie werebrought and re-erected. There were forty doublecolumns with twin caps. This explains the two styleswhich are so evident, and the fact that the iconographyis of the sixteenth century, while the mode of attach-ment to the church at S. Sever de Rustan showed thatthe cloister was placed there in the sixteenth century.The shafts are generally of coloured marble, though notinvariably. A few of the bases are carved as well asmoulded, and I observed that fourteenth - centuryfoliage occurred on the same pieces of marble as someof the most inadequate figure subjects, proving that itwas the individual craftsman who was in fault, andnot his period. St. Bertrand de Comminges. St. Bertrand de Comminges, at the entrance of theVallee de Luchon, is the modern representative of theancient Lugdunum Convenarum, founded in 72 B.C.,though numerous discoveries of the Gaulish epoch, the
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ROMAN REMAINS 127 Iron and Bronze and the Stone Ages, prove that thecountry was inhabited long before. S. Jerome states,in his book against Vigilantius, that Pompey, pressedto go to Rome to receive the honour of a triumph forthe pacification of Spain, obhged the brigands andmountaineers to descend from the heights, and assem-bled them in an oppidum, which therefore receivedthe name of Urbs Convenarum. Among them weremen of many tribes, the debris of the valiant army ofSertorius. Since the town was not named afterPompey, the inference is that there was a Gaulishsettlement there already, which bore the name ofLugudunum (lug, a marsh; and dun, a height, inCeltic, suggest an origin for the name), which is men-tioned for the first time about a.d. 19, when Strabostates that the Convenae had Latin law, which Augustusgave them. The ruins of the Roman fortificationsstretch from the citadel (the present town) to Valcabrere(which was the lower town), and Roman remains,including an amphitheatre a

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