GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Vers-Pont-du-Gard (Gard, 30)
Subject(s) ‘Pont du Gard’
 
Author(s) L’Hospital, Michel de
  Jurisconsult, chancellor of France (c. 1505-1573)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1585
Inscription
References L’Hospital 1585, VI, « De ponte Gardonis »
Bibliography

DLF XVIe siècle, pp. 742-744 ; Provost 1999-2, p. 736 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 88-91

Remarks

At the end of the year 1559, Michel de l'Hospital, then chancellor to Marguerite of France, rejoined the latter at Dun-le-Roi, whence he accompanied her to Nice, where she was to meet her new husband, Emmanuel-Philibert, Duke of Savoy. Michel de l'Hospital dedicated his account of this journey to his friend Jacques du Faur, Master of Requests of the Parliament of Paris. The 'Pont du Gard' was probable the most universally admired Gallo-Roman monument

Transcription 

« ADMIRANDI antiqua operis monimenta, viator,

Suspicis, auctorem pressit iniqua dies :
At tu dignus eras ultra producere famam,
Dignus eras operi vel superesse tuo. »