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After a couple of hours survey, we took leave of the ancient Glanum Livii, convinced that we had as yet seen nothing more perfect in its way than their tout ensemble, when combined with the surrounding scenery.
I brushed a microscopic speck of dust off her gown; I pushed in a hairpin; I tucked up a flying end of veil; I straightened her toque, and made myself altogether indispensable; for the bare idea of being left behind was a box on the ear. I could not endure such a punishment and the front seat would look so empty, so unfinished, without me! As we went back down the steep hill from old Glanum, St.
The ladies of Les Baux and the troubadours Fouquet William de Cabestaing The morality of the loves of the troubadours The Porcelets Story of a siege Les Baux a place of refuge for the citizens of Arles Glanum Liviae Its Roman remains In the train Jaeger garments. From east to west runs the chain of Les Alpines, for just twenty miles, separating the Durance from the plain of the Great Crau.
Almost certainly all the inhabitants of Arles, Tarascon, Glanum, and Cavaillon, all Graeco-Gaulish towns, took refuge on the plateau of the limestone hills. The barbarians could not go south of the Alpines, because the whole region was desert, or was covered with lagoons.
'Twas an easy matter, and the stimulant that I administered was rather dangerously strong: for I brought up the blackest beast in the whole herd of his abominations by asking him if there were not some colour of reason in the belief that Marius lay not at Vièlmur but at Glanum now Saint-Remy-de-Provence behind the lines of Roman wall which exist there to this day.
In April all the women and children of Arles, Glanum, Ernaginum, and Cabelio were clustered on the heights of Les Alpines, in extemporised cabins or in some of the prehistoric habitations they found scooped out of the limestone. Down came the rains. A gale and driving out-pour then as to-day, when M. Carnot comes into Provence.
After the Hotel Dieu ceased to be used as an hospital, it was converted into an arena for bull-fights, but as on several occasions the bulls escaped and fell over the precipices, the utilisation of the great hall for this purpose was abandoned. I had a charming walk across the hills to S. Remy, near which are the remains of the Roman city of Glanum Liviae.
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