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Visitors and residents -- Pic du Midi -- Ramond -- Springs -- Captain / Lizier -- Observatory -- Vaussenat and Nansouty -- Death of the / former -- Val de Campan -- Château d'Asté -- The Grammont family -- / La belle Corisande -- Philibert de Grammont -- His memoirs -- / Larrey -- Marbles -- The Lac bleu -- Slate quarries -- The Cagots -- / Caput Mortuum -- Lepers -- Recuperative power of Nature -- Efforts / of the Church to break down the barrier -- Crestiaas.
Bagnères de Bigorre is a town, but it is country as well; it has the amusements and dissipations provided by a place of public resort, but it has also lovely and quiet resting-places in mountain solitudes.