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TARBES

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TARBES , a See also:

town of See also:south-western See also:France, See also:capital of the See also:department of Hautes-See also:Pyrenees, 98 m. W.S.W. of See also:Toulouse on the See also:Southern railway. Pop. (1906) town, 20,866; See also:commune, 25,869. Tarbes is situated in a beautiful and fertile See also:plain, in full view of the Pyrenees, on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Adour, streams from which are conducted through all parts of the town. The lines of the Southern railway from Morcenx to Bagneres-de-Bigorre and See also:Lourdes and from Toulouse to See also:Bayonne See also:cross here. See also:Chief among the many open spaces is the Jardin See also:Massey • (35 acres), given to his native town by a director of the gardens of See also:Versailles and containing a museum of sculptures, paintings and antiquities. Near a small See also:lake stands a See also:cloister (15th See also:century) transferred from the See also:abbey of St Sever-de-Rustan, 14 M. N.E. of Tarbes, and a bust of See also:Theophile See also:Gautier, a native of Tarbes. The See also:architecture of the See also:cathedral, Notre See also:Dame de la Sede, is heavy and unpleasing, but the See also:cupola of the See also:transept (14th century), the See also:modern See also:glass in the 12th-century See also:apse, and a See also:rose window of the 13th century, in the See also:north transept, are worthy of See also:notice. There is also a modernized Carmelite See also:church originally built in the 13th century. Tarbes is a well-known centre for the breeding of Anglo-Arabian horses, much used by See also:light See also:cavalry; and its See also:stud is the most important in the south of France.

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industrial establishments include tanneries, See also:tile-See also:works, saw-See also:mills and turners' shops. There are important fairs and markets. Well-known See also:race-meetings are held on the Laloubere course. Under the See also:Roman dominion Turba, which was about 11 m. S.E. of the See also:present town of Tarbes, was the capital of -the Bigerriones, one of the states of Novempopulania. The bishopric of Tarbes See also:dates from the 5th century, and in feudal times its bishops held the chief temporal authority, that of See also:xxvi. 14the See also:counts of Bigorre, of which Tarbes was capital, being limited to the See also:quarter of the town where their See also:castle was built. The See also:English held the town from 1360 to 1406. In 1569 Tarbes was burnt by See also:Gabriel, See also:count of See also:Montgomery, and the inhabitants were driven out. This happened a second See also:time, but in See also:August 1590 the See also:peace of St Germain allowed them to return, Subsequently Tarbes was several times taken and re-taken, and a number of the inhabitants of Bigorre were forced to take See also:refuge in See also:Spain, but in 1594 the members of the See also:League were finally expelled. The English, under See also:Wellington, gained a victory over the See also:French near Tarbes in 1814.

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