Dublin Core
Title
A Devolution of Terror
Subject
An account of the ancient superstitions in the Alpilles in Provence, and their ongoing presence in traditional story and ritual
Description
“King René of Anjou, the laughter-loving Count of Provence, seeking to divert the melancholy of his beloved wife, Jeanne de Laval, turned the old-time-Keltic terror into gay new fetes: the games of the tarasque. These games are still played. The tarasque—a monster of wood and canvas….now goes through the sunny streets of Tarascon….”
Publisher
Patrick Geddes & Colleagues
Date
Winter 1896-1897
Rights
Public Domain
Source: Ryerson University Library Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
Yellow Nineties 2.0, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities
Language
English
Type
Image, text
Prose
Identifier
EGV4_janvier_terror
EGV4_decorp_p106
EGV4o_baxter_head_p106
EGV4_decorp_p106
EGV4o_baxter_head_p106
Date Modified
13 Nov 2017, ljk
License
Creative Commons