Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South BurgundyAllen, Percy
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Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy. Stories and Sketches in South Burgundy
Allen, Percy
Burgundy (France) -- Description and travel
[11] I refer all who want full details of the period to M. Camille
Jullian's book "Histoire de la Gaule," and to Mm. de Fontenay
and de Charmasse's "Autun et ses Monuments avec un précis
historique," a very useful book obtainable at the "Libraire
Dujessieu" at Autun.
[12] The battle took place probably near Montmort, about 5 kilometres
north of Toulon.
[13] De Bell: Gall: lib. i, cap. 15: "Autun et ses Monuments," p. 12.
[14] "Ille enim revocatus resistere, ac se manu defendere--saepe
claimitans liberum se liberaque civitatis esse." Cæsar de Bell.
Gall. lib. v. cap. 7; "Autun et ses Monuments," p. 19.
[15] "Autun et ses Monuments," Précis Historique, p.27.
[16] "Autun et ses Monuments," p. 8.
[17] "Autun et ses Monuments," pp. 8 and 9.
[18] See "Lazarus" in "Judas Iscariot" by Andreev.
[19] "Autun et ses Monuments," pp. 216-232.
[20] "Autun et ses Monuments," "Précis Historique," p. 206-7.
[21] François Perrier, poet of the 16th century, quoted in
"Autun et ses Monuments," from the Mémoires of the Société Eduenne.
[22] Ibid, p. 71-73.
[23] See the interesting map of the Roman City in "Autun et ses
Monuments." Roman Autun was sacked again by the Saracens in 731
A.D.; the havoc on that occasion being even more complete than
that wrought by Tetricus.
[24] "Dictionnaire Raisonné," Tome 9, p. 68.
[25] "Dictionnaire Raisonné," Tome 9, p. 68.
[26] "Autun et ses Monuments," pp. 216-232.
[27] "Dictionnaire Raisonné," Tome vii., p. 214. Note I.
[28] "Dictionnaire Raisonné," Tome vii., p. 314.
[29] "Autun et ses Monuments," p. 36.
[30] P. G. Hamerton, The Mount, p. 190.
[31] Déchelette, "Guide des Monuments d'Autun," p. 10.
[32] "Dictionnaire Raisonné," Tome vii., p. 314.
[33] "Autun et ses Monuments," p. 46.
[34] "Autun et ses Monuments," pp. cliv., 45 and 414.
[35] Straight ahead as you go up.
[Illustration: Heading, chapter III; Head of Augustus]
CHAPTER III
THE ROMAN CITY
Leaving the Hotel St. Louis, about which I shall have more to say later
on, and passing along the Rue de l'Arquebus, you emerge upon an open
space, where stands a statue to a Gaulish chieftain with whom we have
already made acquaintance--the Druid, Divitiacus.
It may be heresy on my part, but I must admit that I have very little
sympathy with the French passion for erecting statues of known or
unknown persons, in every public place, quite irrespective of any
ulterior considerations, such as whether such a monument is in any way
expressive of the celebrity's particular talent or genius, or whether
modern garments in carved stone are desirable in a "Place," often
bordered with the most beautiful examples of Gothic or Renaissance
architecture.
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