GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Toulouse (Haute-Garonne, 31)
Subject(s) Château Narbonnais?
 
Author(s) Fonteny, Jacques de
  Parisian polygraph (15.. ?-16.. ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1611
Inscription
References Fonteny 1611, p. 592
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, p. 523 ; Labrousse 1968, pp. 437-445 ; Badie 2002, pp. 233-241 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 98

Remarks

The vestiges in question could not have been the remains of the theatre, the site of which had not been identified in the Renaissance. They may have been those of the 'Château Narbonnais' and the 'Porte Narbonnaise' destroyed in the middle of the 16th century. Fonteny drew on Des Rues

Transcription 

« Il y a encore quelques vestiges & enseignemens d’vn Theatre qui estoit en ceste ville anciennement. »