GALLIA ROMANA

Database of texts and images
Of Gallo-Roman antiquities (15th-17th centuries)

Notice

Ville Narbonne (Aude, 11)
Subject(s) Miscellanea
 
Author(s) Gölnitz, Abraham
  Geographer and cartographer from Danzig (15.. ?–16.. ?)
Resource type Printed book
Date 1631
Inscription
References Gölnitz 1631, p. 580
Bibliography Gayraud 1981 ; Dellong 2003 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 34-35, 84
Remarks

In order to finish Narbonne's ramparts, started under Louis XIII, François I had the subsisting Roman remains, which mostly came from the Gallo-Roman necroplis, collected up and used as building material

Transcription 

« Ipsa mœnia non pauca inclusa habent monumenta & lapides sepulchrales, partim regum aliquot Franciæ, partim priscorum Romanorum, non tamen lectu faciles ; descriptu difficiliores, quòd non permissum valla conscendere sine præfecti consensu. »