GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Autun (Saône-et-Loire, 71) |
| Subject(s) | Funeral monument (Tower near the river) |
| Author(s) | Léauté, Jacques. Physician from Autun 15..?-1582?) |
| Thomas, Edme. Official, cantor and canon of the cathedral of Autun (1591-1660) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1650 |
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| References | Léauté/Thomas 1650, p. 41 |
| Bibliography | Papillon 1742, II, pp. 319-321 ; Rebourg 1993, pp. 147-149 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 113-116 |
| Remarks | The edifice, situated at the foot of the city walls, north of the Porte d'Arroux, was in fact a funeral monument that existed until the late 18th century |
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Transcription
« Ad Septentriones abluitur amne, qui Arronx sic vocatur : vastissima turris rotunda, magna ex parte rupta, præsidium vrbis coniicere licet, aditum in flumen & vrbem ab hostibus vindicans ; quippe à pyla, quæ ab amne sumpsit nomen distat passibus ducentis. Tertia autem est de ipsa |
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