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Tours

City and commune in Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France

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Images referencing Tours

3 images from works
  • A face drawn in black lines with yellow highlights against a striped grey square background with upside down text at the top bearing the message in French: "It is easy to die" and the right way up at the bottom: "It may be difficult to live"; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by L'Alexandra. Colour lithograph by Gilbert Theillin.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.
  • The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

Works from the collections

5 works

    • Books

    Bretonneau : le médecin de Tours / Émile Aron.

    Émile Aron | Date: [1979]
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    • Online

    A face drawn in black lines with yellow highlights against a striped grey square background with upside down text at the top bearing the message in French: "It is easy to die" and the right way up at the bottom: "It may be difficult to live"; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by L'Alexandra. Colour lithograph by Gilbert Theillin.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 672626i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The massacre of Huguenots at Tours: men and women are shot by soldiers, slaughtered with swords or clubbed to death in the water by townsfolk. Woodcut by J. Perrissin, ca. 1570.

    Jean Perrissin | Date: [1570?] | Reference: 42600i
    • Books

    La faculté de pharmacie de Tours : David Creyssels.

    Creyssels, David | Date: 2005
    • Books

    Saints and their miracles in late antique Gaul / Raymond Van Dam.

    Raymond Van Dam | Date: [1993], ©1993

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