GALLIA ROMANA
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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 »… |