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2000 L Club, Published 1984. Paperback, 153 pp.; 21 cm; text in French; numbered copy (no. 101); text reproduced throughout from the authors' handwritten manuscript, illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, coats of arms and coins, a numbered town plan and an area map.
In Very Good condition. Cream paper covers, front lettered in black within a decorative calligraphic border, rear illustrated with a drawing of a Massaliote coin. Spine fitted with a clear plastic slide-bar cover. Mild shelf and edge wear, toning to rear cover, light soiling. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. History of Lambesc, the town 20 km northwest of Aix-en-Provence, set within the history of Provence, written and illustrated by P. A. and M. Gazanhes and published by the town's Photo-Art-Culture club. Follows Lambesc from the Celto-Ligurian Salyens and the Roman roads through the counts of Provence, the Porcelets, the Catalan and Angevin counts, Louis XI as seigneur, the Guise fief, and the principality created by Louis XIV for the Lorraine-Brionne line, whose head was styled "Prince de Lambesc" at court. Covers the town's 140 years as seat of the General Assemblies of the Communities of Provence, which earned it the name "Versailles Aixois," and the earthquake of 1909. The final chapters are a walking tour of the old town and its quarters, keyed to a plan of 23 sites including the hotels particuliers, coaching inns, the Jacquemard clock tower, the 1789 public lavoir and the Musee du Vieux Lambesc. Drawings by the authors show fountains, oratories, the lavoir, Salyen sculpture and Massaliote coins. Contents: Avant-propos; I. Les Salyens; II. Le Moyen-Age, Lambesc dans la Provence des rois; III. Les comtes Bosonides, Les Porcelets; IV. Les comtes Catalans, Naissance du Lambesc actuel; V. Les comtes Angevins, Lambesc propriete angevine; VI. La seconde maison d'Anjou, Louis XI seigneur de Lambesc; VII. L'union de la Provence a la France, Lambesc fief des Guises; VIII. Les Lorraines de Brionne, Lambesc principaute; IX. Lambesc de la Revolution a nos jours; La Ville (visite); Bertoire, Avenue de Verdun; St Roch, Chemin du Pontet, Le Couvent; Chateauvilain a St Marc; Bibliographie.