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100 1 _aMérimée, Prosper,
_d1803-1870
245 1 0 _aNotes d'un voyage en Corse
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
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300 _a1 online resource :
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-12
508 _aChuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Notes d'un voyage en Corse" by Prosper Mérimée is an archaeological travelogue written in the early 19th century. It surveys Corsica’s ancient and medieval monuments, combining field observation with brief historical sketches and cautious hypotheses about their origins. Framed as a report by France’s inspector of historic monuments, it moves from prehistoric megaliths to scarce Roman traces and then to medieval churches, noting how poverty, invasions, and geography shaped what was built and what survives. The opening of this work sets out the plan to classify Corsican monuments by epoch and begins with a rapid, sober history of the island from early contacts (Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians) through Rome, Arab raids, Pisan rule, and Genoese domination. Mérimée then documents pre-Roman remains—dolmens (stazzone) and standing stones (stantare) in the Taravo, Rizzanese, and Cauria valleys—recording measurements, features like carved runnels, local names and legends, and comparing them to Breton and English megaliths while pondering Celtic or Ligurian links (even glancing at physiognomy and dialect). He notes urn burials near Ajaccio and a crude gaine-shaped “idol” at Apricciani, and stresses the absence of Phoenician, Etruscan, or Sardinian-style monuments. Roman evidence proves scant and mostly at Aleria and Mariana; rough structures dubbed the Sala Reale and a small “cirque” may even be Moorish restorations rather than Roman. Brief notices on a granite quarry at Cavallo, slab-built tombs near Figari, and one late antique sarcophagus in Bonifacio lead into his transition toward assessing medieval churches. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Fournier Jeune, Libraire, 1850
653 _aCorsica (France) -- Description and travel
653 _aCorsica (France) -- Antiquities
653 _aArchitecture -- France -- Corsica
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76277
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