SUMMARY

Georges BACCRABÈRE, Tolosan Funeral Pits and Graves from Ist Century BC to IVth Century AC

Collected reports identified all together 23 funeral pits and 2 graves, discovered at random during city ground works. They were located in the east or mainly in the south of the antic city. The pits are generally square in shape, filled up with layered material. The filling layers contain, amongst others, ceramic material (imported or traditional native pottery). Such a density of funeral areas, particularly located at the basis of " Pech-David " hill and along the border of Garonne river, might correspond to unloading areas at the cross of two trade exchange arteries, the first being the terrestrial way, the second the river sailing traffic through " gallic isthmus ".

Jacques LAPART, Inscriptions and Sculptures recently Discovered at Auch (Gers) : The Ancient Antic Collection " Bérot-de-Cologne "

During the year 1989, at Auch, the recovery of a body of archeological material was carried out during the pulling down of an old wall. The recovered material, parts of antic inscriptions, sculptures and others, was dated from gallo-roman period, as described in text. The origin of this material is attributed to an ill-known antic collection of the XIXth century. At the death of the collector, the stones were neglected by the heirs and used again as building stones.

Patrice CABAU, A Chronology of Toulouse Bishops - XIth Century

Although no major difficulty was brought about by the reconstruction of the list of Toulouse bishops of the Xth c., the evidence for the bishop name list and its chronology after the year Thousand raised a number of problems. Interpretation or dating of relevant documents were often subjected to unexpected trouble. A critical examination of available texts as a whole, leads to a noticeable clarification of the bishop list during the first half of XIth c. ; for the following period, the analysis bas been restricted to sources providing weil documented episcopate terms.

Louis LATOUR, The Romanic Auterive (Haute-Garonne) Bridge

The bridge was built over the Ariege river in the XIIth century. It was a large bridge of the Languedoc Province, on the overcrossing road, leading from the Mediterranean Sea to western Pyrenees, upstream of Toulouse. A section of the bridge, collapsed in 1599, was first replaced by a wooden structure. The stone reconstruction during XVIIth century ended up by a failure, ascribed to natural reasons and mainly to the Province downfall by religion wars.

Pierre GÉRARD, The Spell of Past : Montlaur (Haute-Garonne) in the XIIIth Century ; the Church N-D of Maravals

The site was open to life during the last quarter of XIth c. ; howewer, the name of Montlaur was known only from the first years of XIIIth c. ; then its expansion started under the leadership of monks from " La Daurade " and " Saint-Pons-de-Thomières ". In this framework, the small church of N-D of Maravals was erected, in which the most beautiful omament now found is a XVIlth c. painting, showing St Raymond de Pein-afort, founder of the Merdecair Order. The painting is connected to the history of the family of the tolosan painter Hilaire Pader.

Bruno TOLLON, Claire ECZET and Henri GINESTY, The Laréole (Haute-Garonne) Castle, unpublished documents

Reported documents contributed to the knowledge of the building condition of the castle, first designed by Dominique Bachelier (1579) and its status, one century later. The survey (1708) took place at the time when the castle was purchased by a wealthy individuel, Jean-Pierre Colomès, which relationship to tolosan art circles, especially Rivalz and Marc Arcis, emphasized the interest in the discovery of the design of the castle park. It provided new evidence of the renewal period experienced by the castle under Jean-Pierre Colomès, an officer likely responsable of gardens.

Bernard MONTAGNES, The Jacobins Monastery in Toulouse, the architect re living experience

Three documents of the XVIIth c. originating from the Jacobins of Toulouse were commented in text, witnessing the dweller feelings about the monastery structure, as described by the monks and as a frame for their spirituel expérience, such as it casted up their imaginary as well as their faithful's. Thereby it was attempted to overcome the description of an empty monument and accede to the dweller's expérience.

Jean ROCACHER, A Description of the Toulouse Parliament Palace by the Engineer François Garipuy (August 31st 1778)

The only known description of the Toulouse Parliament Palace is the report established in 1778 by François Garipuy, Director of " Ponts-et-Chaussées (Bridges and Ways) " of the Languedoc Province, in a long manuscript paper entitled : Checking and Report of the present status of the Palace where the Toulouse Pat-liament sits... The document perfectly reflects the structure of this palace before it was pulled down in 1825.

Academic Year 1990-1991 Bulletin

A record of the Society semi-monthly sessions providing information on many aspects of its activity. Specific reports are on discussions following public lectures, whether these will be published or not in the Mémoires annual issue. Aside of a bibliographie index, archeological information is provided on Rodez, Agen, Cahors, Auch...

Translated by Claude PÉAUD-LENOËL