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Pic de Gers -- Argelez -- Vieuzac -- The Balandrau -- Intermittent / spring -- Cave of Ouzous -- Devantaïgue -- Beaucens -- Val d'Azun -- / Fortresses -- Arras -- Aucun -- Lake -- Arreins -- Puy-al-Hun -- / Commissioners scared from it -- Garrison frightened away -- Queen / Hortense -- A miscalculation -- Saint Savin -- The Voisins -- / Palatium Æmilianum -- Church -- Paintings -- S. Orens -- Disorderly / monks -- Pierrefite -- Ravine -- Peasantry.
A funicular railway takes a visitor to the top of the Pic de Gers, whence he can obtain a fine comprehensive panorama of the mountains. A cross surmounts the peak that is illuminated at night.