Project Gutenberg 2025-06-12 Public domain in the USA. 136 Mérimée, Prosper 1803 1870 Merimee, Prosper Notes d'un voyage en Corse $aParis :$bFournier Jeune, Libraire, $c1850. Chuck 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) "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.) 20220928134459mrime 1850 FR Reading ease score: 67.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. fr Corsica (France) -- Description and travel Corsica (France) -- Antiquities Architecture -- France -- Corsica DC PQ Text Category: Travel Writing Category: French Literature Category: History - Ancient Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages Category: Archaeology & Anthropology 302376 2025-07-30T07:25:47.806516 text/html 276175 2025-06-12T13:18:01 text/html 3365892 2025-07-30T07:25:57.928443 application/epub+zip 3367605 2025-07-30T07:25:50.608552 application/epub+zip 183662 2025-07-30T07:25:48.578508 application/epub+zip 6491431 2025-07-30T07:26:02.557503 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 6429826 2025-07-30T07:25:55.745465 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 245787 2025-07-30T07:25:46.933554 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 225892 2025-06-12T13:18:01 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14776 2025-07-30T07:26:02.737431 application/rdf+xml 25924 2025-07-30T07:25:48.723494 image/jpeg 3986 2025-07-30T07:25:48.651524 image/jpeg 3387052 2025-07-30T07:25:47.891531 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia