Sevres PLATE – service des Vues Diverses – The Plain of Roncevaux

Sevres Plate 41 Service Des Vues Diverses


After the engraving from Alexandre de Laborde’s (1811) “Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne”.
Roncevaux mountain pass was the location of a famous battle in 778, where a large group of Basques ambushed a part of Charlemagne’s army after his conquest of the Iberian peninsula.

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