Gallia Romana

Notice

City Vienne (Isère, 38)
Subject(s)
Author(s)
Resource type Drawing (pen and ink)
Date c. 1580
Inscription « Tour d’Orenge ou des canaux a vienne » (by another hand)
References Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ms. lat. 9910, f. 91
Bibliography

Jaillet/Bresse 1923-1924, p. 80 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 152-155 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 65-66, 95

Remarks

Transcription

Jaillet/Bresse 1923-1924, p. 80 ; Pelletier 1982, pp. 152-155 ; Lemerle 2003, pp. 10-14 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 65-66, 95

The name ‘Tour d’Orange’ probably originated from the imprisonment of Louis de Chalon, Prince of Orange, in the tower constructed during the reign of Charles VII on the remains of the portico of the baths