GALLIA ROMANA

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Notice

Ville Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s) Tower of Pilate
 
Author(s) Coulon, Louis
  Geographer and Jesuit historian (1605-c. 1664)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1643
Inscription
References Coulon 1643, p. 510
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 341-342 ; Pelletier 1982 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 95-97, 117

Remarks

The passage cited here is included, with slight variations, in Coulon's Les rivières de France, published in 1644 (II, p. 107)

Transcription 

« on y void une Tour ronde, que Tibere fit bastir, & où l’on tient communement que Pïlate rendit la vie à celuy qui luy avoit prestée »…