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Leave Place Marcou along a narrow cobbled path in the northwest corner, next to Le Trouvère – the Occitan word for a troubadour.
‘Alice strolled over the cobbles and out the other side, finding herself at the junction of the rue Cros-Mayrevieille and the Place du Château, where a triangle of shops, crêperies and restaurants surrounded a stone obelisk about eight feet high, topped by a bust of the nineteenth-century historian Jean-Pierre Cros-Mayrevieille.’
The monument is decorated with a bronze circlet of the Carcassonne battlements. Cros-Mayrevieille, a historian and important local administrator, who became inspector of historic monuments, inspired the listing and restoration of the Cité.
