GALLIA ROMANA

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

Ville	Bourges (Cher, 18)
Subject(s)	Roman city walls

Author(s)	Platter, Thomas II
	Physician from Basel, younger brother of Felix Platter (1574-1628)
Resource type	Manuscript
Date	1599
Inscription
References	Platter A λ V, f. 460v°=Keiser 1968, p. 522
Bibliography	Keiser 1968 ; Provost/Chevrot/Troadec 1992, pp. 101-102 ; Le Roy Ladurie 1995 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2000 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 28-31, 107 ; Le Roy Ladurie 2006
Remarks	The passages in italics were added by Platter subsequently to the period in which the rest of the text was written (1604-1605)

Transcription « Unndt sicht man noch heütigs tags gantze mauren der alten statt, welche Avaricum genant gewesen ; dieselbige sindt so gewaltig in einander cementiert, daß man sie mit keinen instrumenten abbrechen kan unndt sie derhalben gantz muß laßen bleiben. » = “And still today, one can see the walls of the old town (which was called “Avaricum”) in their entirety; these walls were constructed so solidly that it is impossible to dismantle them with any tool whatsoever and thus they have remained intact.”