href="#ulink_fc583d8b-9d48-5300-9e15-b10d04c02216">XXXI CATHÉDRALE DE SION
PART IV The Mediterranean Coast
IV STE. MARIE MAJEURE DE TOULON
VIII STE. MARIE MAJEURE DE MARSEILLES
PART V The Valley of the Garonne
VII L'ÉGLISE DE LA SÈDE: TARBES
XIV ST. NAZAIRE DE CARCASSONNE
XVIII STS. BENOIT ET VINCENT DE CASTRES
XXII OTHER OLD-TIME CATHEDRALS IN AND ABOUT THE BASIN OF THE GARONNE
The Cathedrals
of Southern France
INTRODUCTION
TOO often—it is a half-acknowledged delusion, however—one meets with what appears to be a theory: that a book of travel must necessarily be a series of dull, discursive, and entirely uncorroborated opinions of one who may not be even an intelligent observer. This is mere intellectual pretence. Even a humble author—so long as he be an honest one—may well be allowed to claim with Mr. Howells the right to be serious, or the reverse, "with his material as he finds it;" and that "something personally experienced can only be realized on