The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 355
descents in 725 St Porchaire 324 MEDI/EVAL PERIOD. and five hundred monks were massacred. A restoredchapel to the south of the convent still bears the nameof that martyr. To provide a safe place of retreat in case of similarattacks in future it was resolved to erect a keep or castleon a promontory… … \rTfh FIG. l6l. STE TRINITfi, EAST END. (the belfry for which still exists) in time to enable themonks to take refuge with their valuables within thekeep. The castle is stated to have been begun about1073 by the Abbe Aldebert II., partly on Roman sub-structions and partly on the rock, and the…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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