THE ARCADED SQUARE OF MIREPOIX.
The pillars of timber have curiously carved gargoyles. (Page 252.)
It stands at the southern end of a plain which is a vast vineyard, and produces great quantities of wine.
The martyr St. Sebastian, whose death took place in 288, was born at Narbonne, and also the Roman Emperors Carus, Carinus, and Numerian. Carved stones of the Roman period have been discovered in great quantities in the city.
The Cathedral of St. Just was begun in 1272 on a most ambitious scale, but the choir alone
Town Plan No. 18.—Narbonne.
came into being. Had the great undertaking been completed, Narbonne would have possessed one of the vastest cathedrals in France. As it stands to-day, the choir, with its two towers of the fifteenth