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BACCRABÈRE Georges, Potter Furnaces from First Century B.C. at Ancely (Toulouse City)

    Nine potter furnaces were discovered in the years 1965-1968 on a Garonne terrace, the ancient site of Saint-Michel-du-Touch, now known as Ancely Estates, north-west of Toulouse City. The discovered structures included a round-shaped fire-place topped by the base plate and the oven. The hearth, often egg-shaped, and the funnel were in line with the heating room. Thanks to the founding of mixed imported earthware such as amphora potsherds and campanian ceramics, these furnaces have been dated from the first or the second half-first century B.C. One furnace might be dated from the beginning of the new era.

ARRAMOND J.-Ch., CAZES Q., BACH S., GRIMBERT L. and MOLET H., The Ancient Church Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines and its Surrounding Yards in Toulouse : New Foundings

    The ancient church Saint-Pierre-des-Cuisines has been the aim of repeated archeological operations ; the last but one, dating from 1985-1986, was published in T XLVIII (1988) of the present journal. New excavations took place in 1995 and 1996 : they resulted in a more detailed analysis of the oldest parts of the church and of the surrounding area.

CATALO Jean, Antic and Middle-age City Dwellings of Nr 4, Clemence-Isaure street in Toulouse

    A pre-emptive archeological excavation was undertaken in 1993-1994 into land patches located next behind the "Hotel d'Assezat". It disclosed some new aspects of antic and mediaeval dwellings of the City. The prints of a wide gallo-roman house, erected soon in the beginning of our era, could be identified : this Domus was endowed with mosaic floorings and a large central pond. At the end of Middle-age, other quality dwellings were covering the same land. A parallel of archaeological information and archiv records provided means to trace a cadastral survey of the area before the construction of the Renaissance Mansions.

CABAU Patrice, Two Chronicles Composed in Toulouse during the Second Half of XIIIth Century

    Two short chronicles, compiled by clerks close to the Government Officers of last Toulouse Earls, essentially relate some noteworthy events which occurred between the end of XIth and the end of XIIIth century; in the present paper a parallel will be drawn between them and will compare their contents to other mediaeval information sources.

SALVAN-GUILLOTIN Marc, The Antist (Haute-Pyrénées) Wall Paintings

    More than by their style, the interest of these wall paintings is deserved by a sophisticated iconography, which subjects show a collection unrivalled in the "Haute-Pyrénées".

GINESTY Henri and TOLLON Bruno, The Saint-Elix Castle : New Information

    Exceptionally complete records disclosed the circumstances of the erection of this Castle (1541-1546) by Pierre Pottier which was an admirer of the Chateaux-de-la-Loire. The building had a square-mass structure : the design selected a high span-roof and attic-windows, a structure familiar to northern France. Our knowledge of the whole constructing contracts allowed to follow in detail the progress of the building operations.

BOUDARTCHOUK Jean-Luc, whith the collaboration of GENEVIÈVE Vincent, The Town Wall at the Bazacle in Toulouse : a Section of the Curtain

    Building operations projected at the "Nr 19, allées de Brienne" were the opportunity for the excavation of a section of the curtain belonging to a bastion erected in the middle of XVIth century, in order to strengthen the late middle-age Toulouse town wall. The construction of the rampart, in between the years 1540-1560, was undertaken after digging out and banking up the underground. The rampart was dressed with bricks, doubled with a ditch on the outside : it was functional till the end of the XVIIIth century when it was destroyed by the Brienne channel cutting.

BLANC-ROUQUETTE Marie-Thérèse, Saint-Quentin Church in Toulouse, the Seat of Tolosan Printer and Publisher Guild

    The priory dedicated to St-Quentin was located bound to the town North Gate of the antic city. Canonically, the church used to belong to St-Sernin whereas it also played a paper in the civil life when it became, as soon as in the XVIth century, the seat of the tolosan book Publisher, Printer and Binder Guild. It is the most obvious memory left behind by this very old sanctuary which, together with many others, disappeared during the French Revolution.

SÉRAPHIN Gilles, The Fumel Castle and the Renaissance Period in the "Haut-Agenais" and the Southern "Perigord" in the Time of "Catherine de Médicis"

    In the frame of the archaeological estimate of the Fumel fortified borough, the study of the castle concluded that this structure dated from the middle of the XVIth century when until now it was supposed to date from the XVIIth century. Thereby, it is contemporaneous with a number of buildings from the Périgord or Agen area witnessing the influence exercised by Pierre Lescot.

MONTAGNES Bernard O.P., A Chart of the Rosary Brotherhood from the Paul-Dupuy Museum in Toulouse

    This chart was engraved by Jacques Simonin near the year 1690 for the Rosary Brotherhood of Toulouse ; although it was inspired by the previous engravings carved by Michel Beaujan for another Rosary manual published in 1676 in Toulouse, it offered an inventive iconography, at least by its synthetic design. The essential invention took place within three insets devoted to the Saint-Dominique legend peculiar to Toulouse, developed during the roman catholic reconquest and thereby providing this chart with a militant feature.

JULIEN Pascal, Printed Pictures and Propaganda in Toulouse

    Devotion pictures, prayer or indulgency pamphlets were continuously edited along nearly three centuries for the abbey church St-Sernin. These documents were used in order to praise and propagate the cult of relics which were harboured in this famous pilgrimage church. Printed at the rate of several hundred thousand copies, most of them have disappeared. The only remains, a few pictures of XVIth, XVIIth, XVIIIth centuries, are found either isolated or inserted in devotion manuals.

BERTRAND Pascal-François, A Replica of the Apostol Act Tapestry, Drawn by Raphael, Forgotten in Toulouse Cathedral

Three previously unpublished tapestries of the St-Etienne Cathedral of Toulouse, exhibit a varied counterpart of the well known Raphael "Apostol Act" tapestry initially woven in Brussels between 1517 and 1521. The three Toulouse samples also originated from Brussels at the beginning of the XVIIth century ; they were possibly woven in the warper Heinrich Martens'workshop.

LATOUR Louis, The Communion-Rail of St-Paul Church in Auterive (Haute-Garonne)

    This Communion-rail was ordered by the parish in 1789 to Pierre Perie, ironsmith at Villenouvelle. Its Louis the Sixteenth style is associating the broken-line classical design together with the richness of a punched decoration, inherited from the Louis the Fiftenth era.

JULIEN Pascal and MANGE Christian, Saint-Exupere Chapel of Blagnac (Haute-Garonne) and its Restoration in the XIXth Century

    Saint-Exupere chapel harbours a painting cycle describing in fourteen pictures the life of bishop Exupere. The ten most ancient pictures are a rare testimony of the wall painting at the beginning of XVIth century in Languedoc. In 1886, the archaeological analysis of the building was proceeded ; the painter Bernard Benezet further restored the ancient paintings and added four complementary scenes. At the time, the work was set under the sign of care and creation. These paintings, as well as the debate which was raised about them, authorize an analysis of the "archaeological" rules which presided at their design.

Translated by Claude Péaud-Lenoël