Peak of the South of Ossau

Called the Jean-Pierre , the peak of the South of Ossau (in Gascon lo peak of Mieidia d' Aussau ) is a top of the the French Pyrenees (Yrénées-Atlantiques) of which the form characteristic points out that of a tooth.

Its form and its insulation make it particularly visible and recognizable since the plains of Aquitaine.

It is the emblem of the Vallée of Ossau, Pau and the Section paloise, principal club inhabitant of Béarn of Rugby to XV, as well as many companies inhabitants of Béarn having chosen it to carry out a logo.

Geography

It is located in Vallée of Ossau in the Top Béarn close to the Col of Pourtalet.

The peak of the South of Ossau is appeared as a will caldera surrounded by lava flow and of deposits of volcanic ash.

History

In May 1552, the bishop of Surface Mr. of Foix-Candale organized a forwarding to try to gain the top. The details of this attempt are reported by Jacques-Auguste de Thou in his universal Histoire .

It is undoubtedly a shepherd aspois who carried out the first rise of the peak, probably at the request of the geographers Reboul and Vidal to build a turret of triangulation there. The August 20th 1787, Junker notes thus that it could carry out an aiming on the “ signal of the Peak of Midy ”.

The first true rise known, because reported in writing, is that carried out by a tourist, Guillaume Delfau, the October 2nd 1797. It was helped in that by its guide, Mathieu, a shepherd aspois who told with Mr. Delfau the rise carried out by another shepherd a few years before.

Comes then the count Armand d' Angosse, who it August 2nd 1802, in company of Jacques Clabères of Laruns, of a shepherd and three young people from 14 to 16 years, shepherds also, carried out his own rise - that it found very hard - two years after having read the account of Guillaume Delfau.

He was followed the 14 of the same month by Henri d' Augerot, of Nay: wire of Jean-Joseph d' Augerot, manufacturer and ironmaster, in conflict with Armand Mathieu d' Angosse about the Forging mill of Béon and of the Mine of Baburet, it seems that he did not try the rise - that he judged easy - which to be able to disparage the rival of his father.

Sources

  • Louis Bondidier, “first rises with the Peak of the South of Ossau”, Pyrenean Bulletin , n° 219,220,223,227,228,229,230,231 and 232,1936 to 1939.
  • Guillaume Delfau, Voyage to the Peak of the South of Pau, on October 3rd, 1797 by Mr. Delfau , 27 pages. - Another publication: ED. Cairn with Pau, 1997, with a presentation of Claude Dendaletche.
  • Armand d' Angosse, Voyage to the Peak of the South of Pau, carried out on Thermidor 14 of Year 10 . In Paris, printing works of Antoine Bailleul, street Helvétius, n° 71,16 pages.
    Autre publication by Louis Bondidier, “first rises with the Peak of the South of Ossau”, Pyrenean Bulletin , n°223, 1937.
  • Count Roger de Bouillé, Peak of Bigorre and Pic of Ossau , in Pyrenean Bulletin n° 17 (March 1900).
  • Robert Olivier, the peak of Ossau, monograph, impressions and accounts, 1948, Pau. Slatkine republication, 1980, Geneva. 204 p.

Related articles

  • Pyrénéisme

External bonds

  • History of the conquest of the peak
  • Circuit of the lakes to the foot of the peak of the South of Ossau
  • Chart route turn of the peak of the South of Ossau
  • Photographs and excursions on the peak of the South of Ossau

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