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PAU

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 938 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PAU , a city of south-western France,

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

town of the department of Basses-Pyrenees, 66 m. E.S.E. of Bayonne on the southern railway to Toulouse. Pop. (1906), 30,315. It is situated on the border of a

plateau

130 ft. above the right bank of the Gave de Pau (a left-hand affluent of the Adbur), at a height of about 62o ft. above the sea. A small stream, the Hedas, flowing in a deep ravine and crossed by several bridges, divides the city into two parts. The modern importance of Pau is due to its climate, which makes it a great winter health-resort. The most striking characteristic is the stillness of the air, resulting from the peculiarly sheltered situation. The average rainfall is about 33 in., and the mean winter temperature is 430, the mean for the year being 56.
The town is built on a sandy soil, with the streets running

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

and west. The Place Royale (in the centre of which stands Nicolas

Bernard

Raggi's statue of Henry IV., with bas-reliefs by Antoine Etex) is admired for the view over the valley of the Gave and the Pyrenees; it is connected by the magnificent Boulevard des Pyrenees with the castle gardens. Beyond the castle a park of thirty acres planted with beech trees stretches along the high bank of the Gave. Access to the castle is obtained by a stone bridge built under Louis XV.; this leads to the entrance, which gives into a courtyard. On the left of the entrance is the donjon or tour de Gaston Phoebus. On the right are the tour neuve, a modern erection, and the Tour de Montauzet (Monte-Oiseau), the higher storeys of which were reached by ladders; the Tour de Bilheres faces north-west, the Tours de Mazeres south-west. Another tower between the castle and the Gave, the Tour de la Monnaie, is in ruins.
In the gardens to the west of the castle stand a statue of Gaston Phoebus, count of Foix, and two

porphyry

PORPHYRY (IlopcPisptos) (A.D. 233-c. 304)

vases presented by Bernadotte king of Sweden, who was born at Pau. On the ground-floor is the old

hall

of the estates of Beam, 85 ft. long and 36 ft. wide, adorned with a white marble statue of Henry IV., and magnificent Flemish tapestries ordered by Francis I. Several of the upper chambers are adorned with Flemish, Brussels or Gobelins tapestry, but the most interesting room is that in which Henry IV. is said to have been born, containing his cradle made of a tortoise-shell, and a magnificent carved bed of the time of Louis XII. The churches of St Jacques and St Martin in the

Gothic

GOTHIC

style are both modern. The lycee occupies a portion of the buildings of a Jesuit college founded in 1622. The prefecture, the law-court and the hotel de vine present no remarkable features. Pau is the seat of a court of appeal and a court of assizes and has a tribunal of first instance, a tribunal of commerce and a chamber of arts and manufactures. There are training colleges for both sexes, a library, an art museum and several learned societies. Pau owes most of its prosperity to its visitors. The golf club, established 1856, has a course of 18 holes, on the Plaine de Billere, about a mile from the town. Among the industrial establishments are flour-mills, cloth factories and tanneries, and there is trade in wine, hams, horses and cloth.
Pau derives its name from the word pal, in allusion to the stakes which were set up on the site chosen for the town. It was founded probably at the beginning of the 1th century by the viscounts of Beam. By the erection of the present castle in the latter half of the 14th century, Gaston Phoebus made the town a place of importance and after his death the viscounts of Beam visited it frequently. Gaston IV. granted a charter to the town in 1464. Francois Phoebus, grandson and successor of Gaston, became king of Navarre in 1479, and it was not until 1512 that the loss of Spanish Navarre caused the rulers of Beam to transfer their residence from Pampeluna to Pau, which till 1589 was their seat of government. Margaret of Valois, who married Henri d'Albret, made her court one of the most brilliant of the time. In 1553 her daughter Jeanne d'Albret gave

birth

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

to Henry IV. at Pau. It was the residence of Catherine, sister of Henry IV., who governed Beam in the name of her brother. In 1620when French Navarre and Bears were reduced to the rank of province, the intendants took up their quarters there. In the 19th century Abd-el-Kader, during part of his captivity, resided in the castle.

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