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Pierre Souffron
Under the name Pierre Souffron are two brother architects from Périgord, sons of Jean Souffron. It is quite difficult to distinguish them because they have worked in the same region, perhaps together and curiously have the same first name. Can it be assumed that Pierre I worked mainly in Guyenne and that Pierre II exercised his art in Armagnac and Toulouse? Doubts may exist as for the attribution of the from 1599 to 1603 then for the between the two Pierre Souffron. Pierre I Souffron Pierre I Souffron, or Pierre Souffron the elder, was born in La Roque-Gageac around 1555 and died in La Réole in 1621. He married Guillardine Marmande, sister of a notary of La Réole. He had a son, Jean Souffron, first a man of arms in the German Boissy Regiment before becoming a lawyer in the , and a daughter, Madeleine. He also had a brother, Eyméric, ordinary commissioner of the king's artillery, and a sister, Madeleine, who married Domenge de La Porterie, master mason in Marmande who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guyenne
Guyenne or Guienne (, ; oc, Guiana ) was an old French province which corresponded roughly to the Roman province of ''Aquitania Secunda'' and the archdiocese of Bordeaux. The name "Guyenne" comes from ''Aguyenne'', a popular transformation of ''Aquitania''. In the 12th century it formed, along with Gascony, the duchy of Aquitaine, which passed under the dominion of the kings of England by the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry II. In the 13th century, through the conquests of Philip II, Louis VIII and Louis IX, Guyenne was confined within the narrower limits fixed by the treaty of Paris (1259) and became distinct from Aquitaine. Guyenne then comprised the Bordelais (the old countship of Bordeaux), the Bazadais, part of Périgord, Limousin, Quercy and Rouergue and the Agenais ceded by Philip III to Edward I in the treaty of Amiens (1279). Still united with Gascony, it formed a duchy extending from the Charentes to the Pyrenees. This duchy was held as a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Roque-Gageac
La Roque-Gageac (; oc, La Ròca de Gajac) is a commune in the Dordogne department Department may refer to: * Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility Government and military *Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ... in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southwestern France. Perched above the river Dordogne, the village is a member of the '' Les Plus Beaux Villages de France'' ("The most beautiful villages of France") association. Population See also * Communes of the Dordogne department References Image:La roque gageac.jpg File:La Roque Gageac (9).JPG, La Roque-Gageac File:La Roque-Gageac - rue.jpg File:F07.La Roque-Gageac.0005.JPG, File:La Roque-Gageac - Panorama.jpg Communes of Dordogne Plus Beaux Villages de France {{Dordogne-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Réole
La Réole (; oc, La Rèula) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. Geography La Réole is located on the right bank of the Garonne, southeast of Bordeaux by rail. La Réole station has rail connections to Agen, Langon and Bordeaux. History There is evidence of a Roman villa, ''La Pontesa'', with an adjoining cemetery which has been dated to be from the 3rd or 4th century. There were other Roman villas nearby. At this time in the region, there were Roman buildings every kilometre and a half or so. Evidence of later dwellings on the ''La Pontesa'' site show that it was inhabited between the 7th and 8th centuries. Nineteen sarcophaguses and funeral articles have been found on this site. La Réole grew up round a monastery founded in the 7th or 8th century, which was reformed in the 11th century and took the name of ''Regula'', whence that of the town. During the Middle Ages, La Réole was a royal town, administered by six ''jurats' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auch Cathedral
Auch Cathedral (french: Basilique Cathédrale Sainte-Marie d'Auch) is a Roman Catholic church located in the town of Auch in the Midi-Pyrénées, France. It is a national monument, and is the seat of the Archbishopric of Auch. Under the Concordat of 1801, the ecclesiastical office was dissolved and annexed to the Diocese of Agen, but re-established in 1822. It was granted the status of a basilica minor on 25 April 1928. The cathedral contains a suite of 18 Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass id ... stained glass windows by Arnaud de Moles. Image:Cathédrale d'Auch 26.jpg, Auch Cathedral, interior Image:Vitraux Cathédrale d'Auch 13.jpg, Auch Cathedral, stained glass window by Arnaud de Moles: Jonah (detail) Image:Vitraux Cathédrale d'Auch 05.jpg, Auch Cathed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rabastens
Rabastens () is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France. The historian Gustave de Clausade (1815–1888) was born in Rabastens of which he became mayor in 1848. Population Transport Rabastens-Couffouleux station has rail connections to Toulouse, Albi and Rodez. See also *Communes of the Tarn department The following is a list of the 314 communes of the Tarn department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Tarn (department) World Heritage Sites in France {{Tarn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toulouse
Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger Regions of France, region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Paris. It is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, fourth-largest city in France after Paris, Marseille and Lyon, with 493,465 inhabitants within its municipal boundaries (2019 census); its Functional area (France), metropolitan area has a population of 1,454,158 inhabitants (2019 census). Toulouse is the central city of one of the 20 Métropole, French Métropoles, with one of the three strongest Population growth, demographic growth (2013-2019). Toulouse is the centre of the European aerospace industry, with the headquarters of Airbus, the SPOT (satellites), SPOT satellite system, ATR (aircraft manufacturer), ATR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Livre
The livre (abbreviation: £ or ₶., French for (pound)) was the currency of Kingdom of France and its predecessor state of West Francia from 781 to 1794. Several different livres existed, some concurrently. The livre was the name of coins and of units of account. History Origin and etymology The livre was established by Charlemagne as a unit of account equal to one pound of silver. It was subdivided into 20 '' sous'' (also ''sols''), each of 12 '' deniers''. The word ''livre'' came from the Latin word '' libra'', a Roman unit of weight and still the name of a pound in modern French, and the denier comes from the Roman denarius. This system and the denier itself served as the model for many of Europe's currencies, including the British pound, Italian lira, Spanish dinero and the Portuguese dinheiro. This first livre is known as the . Only deniers were initially minted, but debasement led to larger denominations being issued. Different mints in different regions used d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Levesville
Pierre Levesville (c. 1570 in Orléans – 1632 in Toulouse) was a 17th-century French architect. He was the son of a master mason from Orléans. His brother, Jean Levesville, was also a master mason as well as his nephew, Simon Levesville. Biography His father worked with his brother, Jehan or Jean Levesville, on the reconstruction of the choir and then the transept of the Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans. It was on this site that he did his apprenticeship. Having made an engraving of Rome kept in the print room of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, circa 1595-1600, signed ''Petrus Levesville Aurelianensis Inventor Romae'', it is assumed he went to Italy for further training. In 1599, the manufacture of the Basilique-cathédrale Notre-Dame-et-Saint-Privat de Mende signed a contract with Jean Despeysses to rebuild it following the demolitions by the Protestant troops of captain Merle in 1579. It seems that this one did not give entirely satisfaction, so the persons in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Bachelier
Nicolas Bachelier (1485–1557) was a French surveyor, architect, and sculptor who particularly worked in Toulouse. Bachelier is famous in Toulouse for having been the architect, proven or presumed, of several '' hôtels particuliers'' of the Renaissance, as well as for his religious sculptures. He was particularly renowned for his great scholarly culture. In 1539, Bachelier and his colleague Arnaud Casanove, who described themselves as ''expert levelers'', proposed a survey for a canal from Toulouse to Carcassonne to Francis I. Francis I had previously discussed the possibility of such a canal with Leonardo da Vinci. They also proposed that barges could either float down the Garonne River to Bordeaux or could traverse a canal parallel to the river. Francis I approved their plans which included a lock-free canal of variable depth. These plans proved to be inaccurate and could not be executed. In 1598, Henri IV re-examined the plans, but nothing was done until Pierre Paul R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pont Neuf, Toulouse
The Pont Neuf, French for "New Bridge" (a.k.a. Pont de Pierre and Grand Pont), is a bridge from the 16th and 17th centuries in Toulouse, in the South of France. Begun in 1544 and completed in 1632, its construction was made particularly long and difficult by the violent floods of the Garonne and the unstable nature of the subsoil. The architect Jacques Lemercier, who carried out the work at the beginning of the 17th century, made it an innovative bridge for its time. Construction Envisaged by the capitouls (the consuls at the head of the city) at the end of the 15th century, the decision to build a large bridge over the Garonne in Toulouse was pushed by King Francis I, who saw a strategic interest in it in the face of the then threatening Spain of Charles V.Georges Costa, ''Jacques Le Mercier et la construction du Pont Neuf de Toulouse'' ("Jacques Le Mercier and the construction of the Pont Neuf of Toulouse"), in Mémoires de la SAMF, tome LXI (2000-2001). The Pont Neuf in Toulo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauzun
Lauzun (; Languedocien: ''Lausun'') is a commune in the Lot-et-Garonne department in south-western France. The village of Lauzun is located in the north of Lot et Garonne, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is separated from Périgord (Dordogne) by the river Dropt. It is on the D1 road, between Miramont and Castillonnes. History Lauzun's strategic hilltop position was the site of a Gallo-Roman settlement, with a castle developed from the 6th century. The de Caumont family were the lords of Lauzun from the 12th century until the French Revolution. The title Baron de Lauzun was elevated to become Comte de Lauzon from 1570 and Duc de Lauzun from 1692. The Chateau de Lauzun was developed from the original medieval fortress as a Renaissance palace, hosting visits from Catherine de Medicis and her son, the future King Charles IX. The church of St Etienne has a 15th-century Madonna & child sculpture, a 16th-century polychrome statue of Christ and a 17th-century altar and pulpit, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
