GALLIA ROMANA

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Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, 31)
Subject(s) Temple / Temple of Apollo
 
Author(s) Belleforest, François de
  Professional writer, king's historiographer (1530-1583)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1575
Inscription
References Belleforest 1575, l, 2, p. 362
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 125-127 ; Labrousse 1968, pp. 412-417 ; Simonin 1987, pp. 433-451 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 97-100

Remarks

If the existence of a Temple of Apollo at Toulouse cannot be doubted, its situation remains uncertain. Certain historians identify, without proof, its site as being that currently occupied by the Church of Saint-Quintin. According to ancient hearsay, the temple was located in the Daurade area

Transcription 

« en la rue qu’on apelle maintenant la Portarie fut iadis un temple d’Apollon, qui ores est dedié au martyr S. Quentin »…