GALLIA ROMANA

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

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Ville Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais, 62)
Subject(s) ‘Tour d’Ordre’ (Tower of Order)
 
Author(s) Hentzner, Paul
  German jurist (1558-1623)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1617
Inscription
References Hentzner 1617, p. 164
Bibliography Delmaire 1994, pp. 292-292 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 32, 119-120
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« Ex opposito Oppidi pharus est, vel speculæ structuræ vetustissimæ, fossâ ac muro aliquanto cincta, ut indicant ruinæ, quæ nocturno tempore navigantibus ignes ostendit; Constructam hanc à Romanis & longo post tempore à Carolo Magno restauratam fuisse Reginus testatur; Vulgus verò existimat, ab Anglis esse conditam, cum Gallias obsiderent, dicitur Gallicè Tour d’Ordre »…