CHATEAU DE PAU GAVE DE PAU RIVER PAU FRANCE STEREOVIEW JUNE 7 1872 SOUTHWORTH

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CHATEAU DE PAU GAVE DE PAU RIVER PAU FRANCE STEREOVIEW JUNE 7 1872 SOUTHWORTH:
$14.95

Offered for sale from a recent estate sale is an early stereoview Photographed and Published Unknown Artist. The stereoview is titled in old handwritting as follows. It also has the handwritten Initial of H. A. S. or Harriet Ann Southworth and date of June 7th 1872 on the back. The stereoview is titled as follows ----

The château is located in the centre of Pau and dominates that quarter of the city. It was once used byNapoleonas a holiday home during his period of power. It has a small garden that was tended byMarie Antoinettewhen she spent much of the summer in the city.

The castle is classified as aMonument historiquesince 1840 by theFrench Ministry of Culture.The castle nowadays contains a good collection oftapestries.

Pau Castle was founded in theMiddle Ages. Work before any military, is acastletypically built on top of the hill overlooking theGavebounded byravine Hédas.

Since its construction, the castle takes on a symbolic importance: providing a stockade (poor, in Bearn) designate, bymetonymy, the city itself. These piles, symbolizing loyalty and righteousness, are each asaxis mundiin a version of béarnaise. In the twelfth centuryGaston IV of Béarnbuilt three towers at the fortress. They are fourteenth century will see a figure emblematic of Bearn, who leaves his mark at the Chateau de Pau:Gaston III of Foix-Béarn, better known as the Gaston Phoebus. This warlord, in a difficult position because, by their possessions, under the leadership of the enemy kingdoms of France and England, makes the Beam, \"gift of God,\" a united and autonomous region. Fébus there built the tower of brick, high thirty-three meters, and it burns the inscription: \"Febus me\" (Phoebus gave me, in Family History

The Southworth brothers were engaged in paper manufacturing in western Massachusetts and Connecticut from the early years of the century and particularly after 1850. Wells Southworth built a mill in Mittineague West Springfield in 1839 and there made fine writing paper by hand. In 1866 Edward Southworth married Harriet Ann Deane and had one child. Harriet Ann Southworths abbreviations are H.A.S. as seen on this stereoview.

His mill became the property of the Southworth Manufacturing Company of which for more than fifty years he was president and which later became the Southworth Company in the control of his son Horatio W Southworth. A younger brother Edward Southworth ( from my research I believe that Edward was the father of Alice H. Southworth and or abbreviations of A. H. S.) was connected with the paper manufacturing in Mittineague in 1839. The two brothers also organized the Hampshire Paper Company of South Hadley Falls. The Southworths were considered an upper class family and traveled the world including England, France, Germany etc as note with either the name or initials on the back of the stereoviews as offered for sale. The initials vary from H.A. S to A. H. S. This information came from the Southworth and Dickerson the stereoview exhibits old age toning as photo shows.