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Fort Saint-André (ancien château) / Plan d'ensemble
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Title
Fort Saint-André (ancien château) / Plan d'ensemble
Description
English: Plan of the Fort Saint-André in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon showing the abbey.
Date 1769 (on left - appears not to be original)
Medium pen on paper with wash
Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Charenton-le-Pont, France.
Accession number
0082/030/2076 or AP04R02019
Notes

The date seems reasonable. Not later than 1770s when the bed of the Rhone moved away from Mount Andaon. The Maurist abbey did not reached the size indicated until the second half of the 18th century and was destroyed in the Revolution. For the abbey see:

  • Breton, Alain (2000), "Villeneuve-lez-Avignon Saint-André : L'abbaye mauriste", Congrès archéologique de France - Monuments du Gard, 157e session 1999 (in French), Paris: Société française d'archéologie, pp. 495–509.
  • Breton, Alain (2001), "Les construction mauristes de Saint-André de Villeneuve-lès-Avignon", in Barruol, Guy; Bacou, Roseline; Girard, Alain, L'Abbaye Saint-André-lès-Avignon: histoire, archéologie, rayonnement (in French), Mane, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France: Alpes de Lumière, pp. 99–116, ISBN 2-906162-54-X.
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