FESCOURT STEREOVIEW VUES DU MIDI SOUTHERN FRANCE ARENA & ESPLANADE NIMES 1873
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FESCOURT STEREOVIEW VUES DU MIDI SOUTHERN FRANCE ARENA & ESPLANADE NIMES 1873:
$19.95
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- Offered for sale from a recent estate sale is an early stereoview Photographed Fescourt. The stereoview is from the set VUES DU MIDI or VIEWS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE. The stereoview is titled in both print and handwritting as follows. It also has the handwritten Initial of H. A. S. or Harriet Ann Southworth and date of 1873 on the back. The stereoview is titled as follows ----
- ESPLANADE A NIMES - In the scene to the left is also the Amphitheater at Nimes., Southern, France. -- DATED MAY 1873 --and the Initials of Harriet Ann Southworth (H.A.S) --
Below additional information on the town of Nimes and the Person who visited the scene in is a city in theLanguedoc-Roussillonregionof southern France. It is the capital of theGarddepartment.
Nîmes is located between theMediterranean Seaand theCévennesmountains. The estimated population of Nîmes is 146 709 (2012).
Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to theRoman Empirewhen the city was home to 50,000 – 60,000 people.Several famous monuments are in Nîmes, such as theNîmes Arenaand theMaison Carrée. Because of this, Nîmes is often referred to as the French Rome.
COLNEM, forColonia Nemausus, meaning the \"colony\" or \"settlement\" ofNemausus, the local Celtic god of theVolcae Arecomici. Veterans of the Roman legions who had served Julius Caesar in his Nile campaigns, at the end of fifteen years of soldiering, were given plots of land to cultivate on the plain of Nîmes.
The city was located on theVia Domitia, aRoman roadconstructed in 118 BC which connectedItalywithSpain.
FESCOURT STEREOVIEW VUES DU MIDI SOUTHERN FRANCE ARENA & ESPLANADE NIMES 1873:
$19.95