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Springs of Cauterets -- La Raillère -- Taine on Cauterets -- Double / _clientèle_ -- Pont d'Espagne -- Lac de Gaube -- Drowning of Mr. and / Mrs. Pattison -- Avalanches -- Ravine to Luz -- Val de Barèges -- / Church of the Templars -- Hermitage -- Castle of Ste. Marie -- / S. Sauveur -- Imagined accident -- Brêche de Roland -- Giants of / Vizos -- Gorge of the Gave -- Gèdre -- The Héas -- Landslip -- Cirque / de Troumousse -- Chaos -- Cirque of Gavarnie -- Skulls of Templars -- / Du Molay -- Citation before God's throne -- Barèges -- Defences / against avalanches -- Opposition of the peasantry to planting.
From an early period Cauterets enjoyed great repute. By a charter of 945 Raymond I, Count of Bigorre, granted the valley to the abbey of S. Savin, on condition that they built there a church in honour of S. Martin, and that they maintained at the hot springs a hospital for the patients who visited them.