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Here is a map of the village where we were in the Pyrenées. We were very close to the border of Spain. We were fairly high up but certainly not on top. The Chalet where we stayed was called Chalet L’Izard. With snow everywhere on some days it was apparent that it was not the Chalet of the lizards. Jean-Jacques, however, didn’t know what an izard was. My students told me that it is a mountain goat. In the Alps they call them Chamois and in the Pyrenées they call them Izards. I guess that is where the chamois shirts from the 70′s come from. I told the students how we used to pronounce chamois, they got a laugh out of that.

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