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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4876399, member: 110504"]Just found a lot of pics on a thumb drive I'd imported a lot of stuff to, and then forgotten about. The ones for this were taken with my first and only digital camera. (The Marais is pretty good; the Couperin, maybe a little less inspired. But it's been a while since I listened to the cd.)</p><p>Marquisat de Provence. Raymond V (1148-1194; also Comte de Toulouse).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177823[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177829[/ATTACH]</p><p>Obv. Crescent and star, pellets above and below. +R. COMES (Count Raymond.)</p><p>Rev. Cross <i>pometée</i> (Duplessy's word), 'coupant la légende' (thank you, more Duplessy). (In angles: ) D ... V ... X ... M. ('Dux Marchie;' 'Duke of the March,' or Marquis.)</p><p>The counts of Toulouse (who issued the memorable series in their home county) fell into the neighboring, more northerly part of Provence (called a 'Margraviate' in this map) early in the 12th century.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1177841[/ATTACH]</p><p>The elaborate reverse cross is the coat of arms of the counts of Toulouse. </p><p><a href="http://www.midi-france.info/19_toulouse.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.midi-france.info/19_toulouse.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.midi-france.info/19_toulouse.htm</a></p><p>Culturally, it was a brilliant part of the world. Thanks largely to troubadour lyrics, Occitan literature was seeing its first flowering. --As such, easily as early as that other triumph of medieval European vernacular, the Icelandic sagas.</p><p>...But now I might have to post some more stuff (all 12th-13th c.), from the Comte de Provence, Aragon, and the rest of the more or less immediate neighborhood. --That was a threat![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4876399, member: 110504"]Just found a lot of pics on a thumb drive I'd imported a lot of stuff to, and then forgotten about. The ones for this were taken with my first and only digital camera. (The Marais is pretty good; the Couperin, maybe a little less inspired. But it's been a while since I listened to the cd.) Marquisat de Provence. Raymond V (1148-1194; also Comte de Toulouse). [ATTACH=full]1177823[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1177829[/ATTACH] Obv. Crescent and star, pellets above and below. +R. COMES (Count Raymond.) Rev. Cross [I]pometée[/I] (Duplessy's word), 'coupant la légende' (thank you, more Duplessy). (In angles: ) D ... V ... X ... M. ('Dux Marchie;' 'Duke of the March,' or Marquis.) The counts of Toulouse (who issued the memorable series in their home county) fell into the neighboring, more northerly part of Provence (called a 'Margraviate' in this map) early in the 12th century. [ATTACH=full]1177841[/ATTACH] The elaborate reverse cross is the coat of arms of the counts of Toulouse. [URL]http://www.midi-france.info/19_toulouse.htm[/URL] Culturally, it was a brilliant part of the world. Thanks largely to troubadour lyrics, Occitan literature was seeing its first flowering. --As such, easily as early as that other triumph of medieval European vernacular, the Icelandic sagas. ...But now I might have to post some more stuff (all 12th-13th c.), from the Comte de Provence, Aragon, and the rest of the more or less immediate neighborhood. --That was a threat![/QUOTE]
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