Le tour de la France par deux enfants, chs. LXXIV to LXXVIII – Provence

Previous Location: The Dauphiné

Google Map (in progress)

See the Pinchon illustrated map for Provence.

Chapter LXXIV – The boys pass Avignon on the train, then Arles, la Crau, and la Camargues before arriving in Marseille, where they discover that their uncle had left Marseille in hopes of bringing his brother, their father, out of Lorraine. The boys also learn about the Roquefavour Aqueduct and the Tunnel de la Nerthe.

Videos: Week-end à Avignon & La Camargue en liberté, both from Échappées belles; Le Palais des Papes – Région PACA – Le Monument Préféré des Français, Arles – Bouches-du-Rhône – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire, & Camargue – Gard – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir, all from Le Pays préféré des Français. L’Aqueduc de Roquefavour en chantier ! Le plus bel ouvrage du Canal de Marseille fait peau neuve from France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.

Chapter LXXV – Their uncle’s friend devises a plan for the boys.

Videos: Week-end à Marseille and Marseille, la vie en bleu from Échappées belles; Marseille – Bouches-du-Rhône – Les 100 lieux qu’il faut voir – Documentaire from Le Pays préféré des Français.

Chapter LXXVI – The boys explore a ship in the port.

Chapter LXXVII – The boys travel to Cette/Sète, but talk of Toulon, Nice, and Corsica.

Videos: La basilique Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde – Région PACA – Le Monument Préféré des Français from Le Pays préféré des Français; Nice, l’art de la fête from Échappées belles.

The Pinchon map of Corsica

Chapter LXXVIII – Julien reads about sculptor Pierre Puget and orator Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau.

Videos: Mooc Louvre : L’instant figé – Arrêt sur image 2 from Musée du Louvre; 2 avril 1791 : le jour où Mirabeau expire dans son lit from Le Point.

Video on Provence, in general: Provence from Echappées belles.

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Longfellow’s Poems of Places

Les Aygalades in Marseille in Bouches-du-Rhône

On the Terrace of the Aigalades by Joseph Méry (1797–1866)

The Château d’If off the coast of Marseille in Bouches-du-Rhône

The Château d’If by Julia Pardoe (1806–1862)

Arles in Bouches-du-Rhône

Arles by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914)

Arles by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914)

Camargue in Bouches-du-Rhône

Camargue by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914)

Camargue by Frédéric Mistral (1830–1914)

Avignon in Vaucluse

Avignon by Maria Lowell (1821–1853)

The Massacre of Avignon by Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925)

The Bells of Avignon by Walter Thornbury (1828–1876)

The Wine of Avignon by Francesco Redi (1626–1697)

Cannes in Alpes-Maritime

Rachel by Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

Near Cannes by Cora Kennedy Aitken

Corsica

Corsica by Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)

10 March – Saint Macarius of Jerusalem

Modern Hagiography

Martyrologium Romanum

Roman Martyrology

Roman Martyrology

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Medieval Hagiography

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Medieval Religion Listserv

Stavelot Triptych

Post-Biblical Saints Art Index


10 March – Forty Martyrs of Sebaste

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Benedicite glacies, et nives domino.
O ye ice and snow, bless the Lord.
Daniel 3.70
In frigore, et nuditate.
In cold and nakedness.
2 Corinthians 11.27

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Martyrologium Romanum (9 March)

Roman Martyrology (9 March)

Sanctorale Catholicum

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Character Calendar

Pictorial Lives of the Saints

La vie des saints 

La vie des saints

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly.

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu.

Miniature Lives of the Saints for Every Day in the Year

Deeds of Faith by John Mason Neale. 

Short Instructive Sketches from the Lives of the Saints

Il libro d’oro

The Lives of Saints, with Other Feasts of the Year, According to the Roman Calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Tradition in Action

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplement

Acta Sanctorum

The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity Database

Gregory of Nyssa’s Two Homilies and a letter on the Forty Martyrs (via wayback machine)

Aelfric’s Sermon

Breviarium RomanumLatin & English.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

Europeana

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Medieval Religion Listserv – 2016 Dillon.

The Oratory of the Forty Martyrs at the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome (about with photos)
Fresco in Santa Maria in Cosmedin

10C Byzantine Ivory

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – couronne.

Music

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Devotions

Manna for the Soul: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Paulo Segneri.