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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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nce the palaceof the Governors of the Comte de Foix, now also housingthe Museum in its lower rooms, some of which datefrom the fifteenth century. Here are to be found somecapitals from the cloister of S. Volusien, a few otherarchitectural fragments, coins, etc. A little nearer thebridge is the church dedicated to the saint, who wasBishop of Tours, was exiled by Alaric IL, and mas-sacred in 497 near Varilhes by the Arian Visigoths.His relics were brought hither when the oratory foundedby Charlemagne, after his expedition against theSaracens, was converted into an abbey in the tenthcentury. The oldest portions of the church, the navewalls, the transept (except the vaults), and the Roman-esque south door, are due to the reconstruction underRoger n. (1111-1123). The Gothic choir, with itsseven chapels was added in the fifteenth century. Itwas sacked by the Huguenots and altogether ruinedin 1581. The vaults, which have pointed arches andribs to match, were built in the seventeenth century,
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196 FOIX AND THE VALLEY OF THE ARIEGEshowing that the imitation of an eadier style is not anovel expedient invented by modern architects. Itwas reconstructed by Pierre de Caulet, from 1609 Treasurer of France at Toulousewith his brother, Jean Georges.Frangois Etienne de Caulet, hisnephew, who was Abbot of S. Volu-sien in 1627, and Bishop of Pamiersin 1644, raised the vaults, andgave the silver chapelle to thehigh-altar. It had never beenvaulted, and was paved with thematerials of the Calvinist churchdemolished by the Catholics in1622. The raftered roof was sodefective that in 1632 the high-altar fell, being decayed by therain ! In 1664 it was decided tovault it ; in 1666 the politicalcouncil voted 350 livres for thepurpose, and as much in 1667-1669, and 1670, the work beingcompleted in 1672, including alittle bell-turret for Low Masses.The choir is surrounded by prettychapels, and encloses a sixteenth-century Holy Sepul-chre. Some low stalls taken from S. Sernin, Toulouse,at the resto

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