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) Des Rues, François
  Writer and treasurer at Soissons (c. 1575-1633)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1608
Inscription
References Des Rues 1608, p. 552
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 389-390 ; Leblanc 1880, pp. 89-97 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 124-125 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 69, 96-97

Remarks

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

Transcription 

« L’Empereur Tybere feit bastir le pont de Vienne sur le Rhosne : & feit faire des chasteaux à chacun bout du pont, environ cent quatre vingts ans devant la venue de Jesus Christ. »