Each of the three sections of the border demarcated was the result of 2
treaties, one on methods and the second giving the actual monument location
description. Thus the 2nd and third treaties in the 1860s should tell you
where the Andorran tripoints are.
Brendan
>From: "mick donner" <m@...>
>Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
>Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: border markers France-Spain
>Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:44:20 -0000
>
>is there any info here about the andorra tripoints
>
>m
>
>--- In BoundaryPoint@egroups.com, "Brendan Whyte" <brwhyte@h...>
>wrote:
> > After researching the case of Llivia, I can field this one:
> > After the Treaty of the Pyrenees defined the boundary between France
>and
> > Spain in 1659, the border was definitively demarcated on the ground
>as the
> > result of three treaties in the 1860s. The first started at Bidossa
>and went
> > east, the markers being numbered fomr #1 at that end. The second
>treaty
> > contined on to Andorra, continuing the numbering, and the third form
>andorra
> > past Llivia (with 42 separately numbered markers) to the
>Mediterranean
> > (#600).
> > The treaties with their descriptions of the border line and the
>positions of
> > the markers are available in Parry's 140+ volume set "Consolidated
>Treaty
> > Series".
> > The markers themselves should be shown and numbered on either of the
>French
> > 1:25000 map series, Topo25 or Series Bleu.
> >
> > Brendan Whyte
> >
> >
> > >From: "Eef Berns" <eefberns@d...>
> > >Reply-To: BoundaryPoint@egroups.com
> > >To: <boundarypoint@egroups.com>
> > >Subject: [BoundaryPoint] border markers France-Spain
> > >Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:28:06 +0100
> > >
> > >I did a lot of walking in the Pyrenees, following the long distance
>-coast
> > >to coast- path GR10. There's a line of border markers on the
>mountain
> > >ridges. I photographed some of them while passing. According to an
>French
> > >article I found by accidence, there are 600 numbered border
>markers. A
> > >question about these markers in French usenet-newsgroups led to
>nothing.
> > >Does anyone of you know more about it?
> > >
> > >
> > >vriendelijke groet,
> > >
> > >Eef Berns
> > >
> > >-----------------------
> > >website:
> > >- de grenspalen van Nederland (the border markers of the
>Netherlands):
> > >http://huizen.dds.nl/~eefberns
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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