Gallia Romana

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City Narbonne (Aude, 11)
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Resource type Printed book
Date 1631
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References Gölnitz 1631, p. 580
Bibliography Gayraud 1981 ; Dellong 2003 ; Lemerle 2005, pp. 34-35, 84
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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

« 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. »