GALLIA ROMANA
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Ville | Périgueux (Dordogne, 24) |
Subject(s) | Amphitheatre |
Author(s) | Evelyn, John |
English writer (1620-1706) | |
Resource type | Manuscript |
Date | 1644 |
Inscription | |
References | Evelyn, ed. Dobson 1906, I, p. 126 |
Bibliography | Dobson 1906 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 36, 106 |
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Transcription
« The next day, we lay at Périgueux, a city built on an old foundation ; witness the ruins of a most stately amphitheatre, which I went out to design, being about a flight-shot from the town ; they call it now the Rolsies. » |