GALLIA ROMANA
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| Ville | Nîmes (Gard, 30) |
| Subject(s) | Sanctuary of the Fountain |
| Author(s) | Coulon, Louis |
| Geographer and Jesuit historian (1605-c. 1664) | |
| Resource type | Printed book |
| Date | 1643 |
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| References | Coulon 1643, p. 553 |
| Bibliography | DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 341-342 ; Fiches/Veyrac 1996, pp. 241-268 ; Gros 1996, pp. 370-371, 440-441 ; Lemerle 2005, p. 87 ; Lemerle 2013-2 |
| Remarks | The passage cited here is included, with slight variations, in Coulon's Les rivières de France, published in 1644 (II, p. 317). The building identified as a temple is in reality the place of worship in the Sanctuary of the Fontaine |
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Transcription
« Hors de la ville, & prés de la fontaine est vn temple ruiné de Diane ou de Vesta, où l’on remarque encore les niches des Idoles, les cheminées pour faire euaporer la fumée des sacrifices, & la place où les Prestres esgorgoient les victimes. » |
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