Causses

These we used on that second tour of France, this time through the southwest, east from Bordeaux into the rugged countryside of the Dordogne and the Grandes Causses, south from there to the walled city of Carcassonne and the pleasant Provencal towns of Aries and Avignon.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

These we used on that second tour of France, this time through the southwest, east from Bordeaux into the rugged countryside of the Dordogne and the Grandes Causses, south from there to the walled city of Carcassonne and the pleasant Provencal towns of Aries and Avignon.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

These we used on that second tour of France, this time through the southwest, east from Bordeaux into the rugged countryside of the Dordogne and the Grandes Causses, south from there to the walled city of Carcassonne and the pleasant Provencal towns of Aries and Avignon.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

These we used on that second tour of France, this time through the southwest, east from Bordeaux into the rugged countryside of the Dordogne and the Grandes Causses, south from there to the walled city of Carcassonne and the pleasant Provencal towns of Aries and Avignon.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Each of the four Causses is a waste; but the Causse of Mende is utterly bereft of men.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

Those standards of measure which (I have said) the Causses so easily disturb would not return to me.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

The Causses have also this peculiar to them: that the ravines by which each is cut off are steep and sudden.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

Causses casts up above its plain fantastic heaps of rock consonant to the wild spirit of its isolation; but the Causse of Mende holds a kind of fortress -- a medley so like the ghost of a dead town that, even in full daylight, you expect the footsteps of men; and by night, as you go gently, in fear of waking the sleepers, you tread quite certainly among built houses and spires.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

Each of the Causses is silent; but the silence of the Causse of Mende is scorched and frozen into its stones, and is as old as they: all around, the torrents which have sawn their black canons upon every side of the block frame this silence with their rumble.

Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

Causses of Quercy, and Alpine ranges, as the Dolomites of Brixen.

Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe 1879