Rieux-de-Pelleport
and Benagues
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Rieux-de-Pelleport and Benagues are not all that important to our Fairytale except that Batrthelemy met Beatrice between these two towns and talked her out of running away from her initial summons. At Barthelemy's urging she instead faced the Bishop of Pamiers in a preliminary hearing, with an appointment for a formal hearing. She was not about to partake of the Bishop's company again, not voluntarily!
From the sign below you can see that this town, where one of Beatrice's married daughters lived, was very close
to mom's home in Varilhes. About two miles away is all.
Somewhere between these two towns the couple walked into a vineyard and made love. A servant girl kept lookout for them. Oh well. That's how they communicated it seems. This cornfield just below Benagues is a nicely protected farm that might have ben similar to the one that served this purpose.
This is how Benagues would have appeared on a walk from Rieux-de-pelleport. Our couple walked from near Pamiers, where they spent the night. they passed just to the right of Benagues where there was a bridge across the Ariege river. From there our couple made their way to Rieux-de-Pelleport, on the west side of the river. Then Barthelemy went home to Mezerville until summoned again by Beatrice.
I liked these two towns and their general area, which includes scenes like this one:
Varilhes and Carol are in the vicinity too. All have an attractive openness and lightness. I'd like to live in one of the area's country homes myself!
The town of Rieux-de-pelleport itself wasn't very exciting to me. It had an apartment complex adjoining the church that seemed to support a few indigent dogs, a Medieval scene!
The church is old, and with narrow streets it was hard to get an overview of its size.
But as is always my wont, I did like the views of the Pyrenees available from the edge of this town:
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