Example sentences of "[prep] [art] lac de " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than a mile from the turning for the Lac de Bious-Artigues , but on the other side of the road , is a lazier way of gaining real altitude and tremendous views , by taking the cable-car ( it goes regularly only in summer and during the skiing season ) up to the Pic de la Sagette , at almost 7,000 feet . |
| 2 | On this robust eminence you can walk , climb about on the slopes or the scree , or look in amazement across at the Pic du Midi d'Ossau and down into the pale green waters of the Lac de Fabréges in its harsh , glaciated valley directly below . |
| 3 | He enjoyed the salmon trout he ate at the small inn there but was mighty scathing about the visitors ' book ( as well as about the notion that the lake might actually be beautiful ) : ‘ You will see only two kinds of exclamations in it : one about the beauty of the Lac de Gaube , the other about how good the trout are … which means that only fools or gluttons have picked up the pen to sign their names and their thoughts . ’ |
| 4 | These were the sorts of stories to be read in the pamphlets sold beside the Lac de Gaube for years after the event by the promoters of the tourist trade . |
| 5 | And because this is a classic excursion , remember that others may be making it too ; in summer I can imagine it becoming exceedingly crowded up here and the path to the Lac de Gaube an ant-trail of pedestrians bumper to bumper . |
| 6 | At the Pont d'Espagne the road ends , but you can then take a reasonably comfortable path , for about three-quarters of an hour , up through the tumbled rock and ailing pine trees — they seem to be fighting a losing battle against the colonies of grey lichen — to the Lac de Gaube , at an altitude of a trifle under 6000 feet . |
| 7 | But as a corrective to the excitable Hugo , let me quote another great French writer of the nineteenth century , a formidably astringent one this time , who likewise tramped dutifully up to the Lac de Gaube : the novelist Gustave Flaubert . |