In focus
4 June 2008 Latest additionOn one side, a text that provides basic information; on the other, a series of photographic documents, each completed by a caption. In fact, two ways to approach the work, two complementary methods that reach the essentials, image by image.
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The Templars
Book | In focusThe Order of the Knights Templar was founded in Jerusalem in 1119, after the First Crusade and the creation of the Latin Kingdoms of the East, to (...)
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The Cistercians
Book | In focusIn 1098, Robert of Molesme founded, in a place called Cistels, his New Monastery. After difficult beginnings the Order of Cistercians, with the (...)
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The Cathars
Book | In focusFor having tried, like “good Christians”, to explain that Evil could not possibly have sprung from a divine source, the Cathars, (...)
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Prehistory
Du Big Bang à l’âge du Bronze
Book | In focusA period of 13.7 billion years separates the Big Bang from the Bronze Age. Galaxies, stars and planets were then engendered. And on Earth, where (...)
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The Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi is the realisation of an almost Utopian project, to link the Mediterranean to Toulouse and to the Atlantic by a navigable (...)
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the roads to Compostela
Book | In focusAt the dawn of the 9th century, a star appeared in the skies above Galicia. It led to the discovery of the tomb of James the Great, the apostle (...)
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Toulouse
Book | In focusToulouse was founded by the Volques Tectosages in the 3rd century b.c. A Roman colony and then capital of the Visigoth kingdom, it became the (...)
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Pic du Midi de Bigorre
Book | In focusOne does not climb to the summit of Pic du Midi de Bigorre like just any other mountain. Instead it is a pilgrimage. Pic du Midi Observatory was (...)
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Basque Coast
Labourd
Book | In focusThe French Basque Coast extends from Bayonne to Hendaye, and with Biarritz, Guéthary, Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Socoa creates a chapelet of (...)
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Lourdes
From Vision to Pilgrimage
Book | In focusAt Massabielle Grotto, on February 11th, 1858, a “little lady” appeared to Bernadette Soubirous. Later that year, on March 25th, the (...)
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