Hi Bill, Thanks for the tip. I enjoyed searching for sundials in SW France this spring. We rented a "gite" near Figac and used the SAF publication "Cadrans Solaires Francais Catalogue" to supplement our Michelin maps and guides. The most memorable dials that we found were not in the catalogue: the memorial dial for the Tour de France cyclist Fabio Casartelli marking where he crashed in the Pyrenees on 18 July 1995; the 1792 engraved stone VD dial on church in the village of Camburat, a silent witness to the capture of Robespierre in 1794 prior to his execution by guillotine in Figac in 1794.
As you know well from your Roman studies, France has a depth of history that we lack in North America. Hartford, the site of the NASS conference was better than what we have in the west. Fred Sawyer led us to an excellent dial on a classic New England village church founded in 1761. Roger Bailey N 51 W 115 At 04:32 PM 9/28/99 -0500, William P Thayer wrote: >Hi all, > >Exploring a very obscure site just now, noticed this on the fly; it may >interest someone: > >http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.leoutre/MPO.html >(a page of the Archeological Society of Gers département) >includes an orderable book on the sundials of the Gers: > >LES CADRANS SOLAIRES EN GASCOGNE GERSOISE, par Pierre LÉOUTRE et >Christiane ACQUIER : 50 F (about $8 US) > Mr. Léoutre is the siteowner of the page -- > > >Bill Thayer > LacusCurtius >http://www.ukans.edu/history/index/europe/ancient_rome/E/Roman > > >
