SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO
ROMANTIC TREASURE HUNT For more than a year a young engineer named Aruaud has been tunnelling beneath the romantic stronghold of Montsegur, which is perched on an eminence among the foothills of the Pyrenees. He is in search of buried treasure, and believes that ho is now nearing his objective. A winding gallery which he lias opened in a declivity which is almost a precipice is already more than 120 ft long. He hopes to penetrate very soon to an underground chamber which may contain gold and silver, and in which there are almost certainly some old manuscripts. Montsegur has been almost forgotten since 1244, when the heretics who had made it their refuge, after resisting the armed forces of the church for tliirtv years, were betrayed and defeated. More than 200 of them were burned at the stake. When the place fell there were at least 1,000 men, women, and children inside it, and most of them were living in the vast subterranean oaves and vaults. It is believed that some of the lower vaults, sealed up with masonry, were never broken open. Diviners have helped M. Aruaud to locate their position.
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Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 13
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197SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO Evening Star, Issue 21170, 2 August 1932, Page 13
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