L’art des jardins, PUF Que sais-je? n° 618, third edition 1974 Les villes romaines, PUF Que sais-je? n° 657, first edition 1954, seventh edition in 1990...

hill, where thermal springs were located, he founded a new town, called Aquae Sextiae ("The Waters of Sextius"). Later it became known simply as Aix,...

BC, next to the Celtic town of Entremont, the Romans built a new town, Aquae Sextiae, later called Aix-en-Provence. In 118 BC they founded Narbo (Narbonne)...

mound; aigues is from the Occitan aigas, meaning waters (derived from Latin aquae), as seen in place names like Aigues-mortes and Aigues-vives in the neighbouring...