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Iluro -- Road over the port -- The _beret_ -- Three parts to the / town -- How the bishop got a cathedral -- The porch -- Ste. Croix -- / Bishop Roussel -- Frightened to death -- Escot -- Independent / Republic -- Emigration -- Sarrance -- The _Heptameron_ -- Accous -- / Story of Loustaunau -- Osse -- Urdos, the French Gibraltar -- / Mauleon -- Espadrillos.
Oloron is the ancient Iluro, in Gallo-Roman times one of the twelve cities of Novempopulania, and of importance as the key to the passage of the Pyrenees by the Val d'Aspe over the Somport.