GALLIA ROMANA

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

Notice

Ville Dax (Landes, 40)
Subject(s) Roman bridge
 
Author(s) Duchesne, André
  Geographer and king's historiographer (1584-1640)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1609
Inscription
References Duchesne 1609, ed. cit. 1614, III, p. 771
Bibliography

DLF XVIIe siècle, pp. 408-409 ; Deschamps-Juif 1963 ; Jullian 1901, pp. 220-221 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 70, 107

Remarks

Duchesne drew on La Serre, a copy of whose manuscript he owned (Paris, BnF). The Roman bridge was swept away by a flood in 1770

Transcription 

« Pres de là aussi passe la riviere d’Adur, sur laquelle vous remarquez vn beau pont »…