[Publications of the Académie royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux Séance Publique]
Publisher: Chez Deliège Aîné, Imprimeur de l’Académie, Gendre et Successeur de Brossier
Published: 1834
Place of publication: Bordeaux
Language: fre
Number of pages: 286
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 225, f. [1]; pp. 36.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Contains the full proceedings of the conference of the Académie royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux Séance Publique of 28 August 1834 including a lecture by the archeologist and library curator François Jouannet (1765-1845), Antiquités. Rapport à l’Académie royale de Bordeaux, Par F. Jouannet, pp. 187-213 (includes folding plate (fig. 1-5) of Chrétin’s drawing of the Nérac bas relief annexed at the end of the volume), bound with three further articles by François Jouannet on the “discoveries” at Nérac: Examen Critique des Antiquités de Nérac. Par F. Jouannet. 18 Juin 1835, pp. 1-21; Rapport sur quelques antiquités, par le même. 6 Août 1835, pp. 22-32; Communication faite à l’Académie royale par le même. 3 Septembre 1835, pp. 33-36.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">In his original report to the Académie, completed on July 10 1834, Jouannet wanted to discuss a gorgeous bas-relief, and other ‘antiques’ and inscriptions, concocted by the unschooled but ingenious Maximilien Théodore Chrétin discovered during the 1831-33 ‘excavations’ at Nérac, near Toulouse. The antiquities seemed to provide a French answer to the Italian discoveries at Herculaneum, and just what the patriotic Ministry of Public Works had been newly funded to encourage. By August 6 1834, Jouannet had realized that the discoveries were forgeries but his report was already in press and he could only add a short note. In the next three articles, he was able expand on his doubts about the veracity of the discoveries. See </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Bib# 4102933_1/6007883-4/Fr# 1294 for Jouannets previous discourses on the “discoveries.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_6007885" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>