GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône, 13)
Subject(s) Amphitheatre
 
Author(s) Thou, Jacques Auguste de
  President of the parliament of Paris and historian (1553-1617)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1582
Inscription
References Thou 1711 p. 86
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 1123-1125 ; Constans 1921, pp. 298-324 ; Gros 1991, pp. 49-50 ; Gros 1996, pp. 335-337 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 89 ; Rothé/Heijmans 2008, pp. 274-283

Remarks

Extract from J.-A. de Thou's account of his trip to the South of France in 1582. His Memories, first published in Latin (Commentariorum de sua vita libri VI, Geneva, 1620), were translated into French in 1711

Transcription 

« il ne reste plus que des ruines d’un amphithéâtre & de plusieurs tombeaux, qui sont des monumens de son ancienne grandeur ».