GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Pont de Trajan
 
Author(s) Belleforest, François de
  Professional writer, king's historiographer (1530-1583)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1575
Inscription
References Belleforest 1575, I, 2, p. 323
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 125-127 ; Leblanc 1880, pp. 89-97 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 124-125 ; Simonin 1987, pp. 433-451 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 68-69, 96-97

Remarks

The only one of the three Roman bridges which subsisted was swept away by a flood in 1651

Transcription 

« il faut sçavoir que Tibere Gracche passé en Gaule bastit un pont a Vienne sur le Rhosne, & feit des chasteaux a chacun bout du pont pour la seüreté des passages »…