Seyne


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FieldValue
nameSeyne
commune statusCommune
imageSeyne les Alpes.jpg
captionA general view of the village of Seyne
image coat of armsBlason Seyne.svg
arrondissementDigne-les-Bains
cantonSeyne
INSEE04205
postal code04140
mayorLaurent Pascal
term2020–2026
intercommunalityCA Provence-Alpes
coordinates
elevation m1260
elevation min m1079
elevation max m2720
area km284.27
population
population date
population footnotes
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Seyne (; Vivaro-Alpine: Sèina) is a commune in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, a department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in south-east France. It is roughly 30 km north of Digne.

The village's official name is listed under the INSEE Official Geographic Code as "Seyne". However it is known locally as "Seyne-les-Alpes", not to be confused with La Seyne-sur-Mer which is the second largest city in the Var.

The residents are traditionally referred to as "Seynois". In more recent years locals have been known to also go by "Seynard" (male) and "Seynarde" (female).

The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence tourism board listed Seyne-les-Alpes as one of their "villages and towns of character", an award given to places around the region with remarkable architecture and less than 2000 inhabitants.

Geography

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The village sits at an altitude of 1260 m. The Seyne Valley, known for its rich soil, is nicknamed the Swiss Provençal.

The only river to run through the village is the , a tributary of the Durance.

The local area is made up of 2800 ha of woodland and forests.

Communication and transport

Seyne is situated on the D900 road, between the neighbouring communes of Le Vernet and Selonnet. The road runs from Digne in the south, all the way to the Maddalena Pass on the Italian-French border. The nearest SNCF railway station is the .

Climate

|location = Seyne-Col Maure, 1347m (1981−2010 normals, extremes 1998−2009) |metric first = Y |single line = Y |Jan record high C = 16.0 |Feb record high C = 16.5 |Mar record high C = 20.0 |Apr record high C = 21.5 |May record high C = 27.8 |Jun record high C = 31.0 |Jul record high C = 31.0 |Aug record high C = 32.4 |Sep record high C = 30.1 |Oct record high C = 23.5 |Nov record high C = 17.7 |Dec record high C = 15.6 |year record high C =

|Jan high C = 4.5 |Feb high C = 5.9 |Mar high C = 9.3 |Apr high C = 12.1 |May high C = 17.3 |Jun high C = 22.1 |Jul high C = 24.6 |Aug high C = 24.2 |Sep high C = 19.3 |Oct high C = 14.9 |Nov high C = 8.0 |Dec high C = 4.5 |year high C =

|Jan mean C = -1.3 |Feb mean C = -0.4 |Mar mean C = 3.1 |Apr mean C = 5.9 |May mean C = 10.7 |Jun mean C = 14.5 |Jul mean C = 16.4 |Aug mean C = 16.4 |Sep mean C = 12.4 |Oct mean C = 8.9 |Nov mean C = 2.9 |Dec mean C = -0.5 |year mean C =

|Jan low C = -7.0 |Feb low C = -6.8 |Mar low C = -3.1 |Apr low C = -0.2 |May low C = 4.0 |Jun low C = 6.9 |Jul low C = 8.2 |Aug low C = 8.5 |Sep low C = 5.5 |Oct low C = 2.8 |Nov low C = -2.2 |Dec low C = -5.5 |year low C =

|Jan record low C = -20.5 |Feb record low C = -23.5 |Mar record low C = -18.0 |Apr record low C = -11.2 |May record low C = -4.0 |Jun record low C = -4.2 |Jul record low C = -0.5 |Aug record low C = 1.0 |Sep record low C = -3.5 |Oct record low C = -8.7 |Nov record low C = -17.4 |Dec record low C = -20.0 |year record low C =

|precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 65.2 |Feb precipitation mm = 42.1 |Mar precipitation mm = 72.1 |Apr precipitation mm = 100.0 |May precipitation mm = 102.5 |Jun precipitation mm = 74.4 |Jul precipitation mm = 61.2 |Aug precipitation mm = 82.5 |Sep precipitation mm = 105.1 |Oct precipitation mm = 121.4 |Nov precipitation mm = 108.4 |Dec precipitation mm = 83.8 |year precipitation mm =

|unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm |Jan precipitation days = 7.4 |Feb precipitation days = 5.3 |Mar precipitation days = 7.9 |Apr precipitation days = 11.2 |May precipitation days = 11.7 |Jun precipitation days = 8.3 |Jul precipitation days = 6.8 |Aug precipitation days = 8.9 |Sep precipitation days = 8.3 |Oct precipitation days = 9.5 |Nov precipitation days = 8.5 |Dec precipitation days = 7.8 |year precipitation days =

|source 1 = Meteociel{{cite web |url = https://www.meteociel.fr/obs/clim/normales_records.php?code=4205004&normes=2010 |title = Normales et records pour Seyne-Col Maure (04) |publisher = Meteociel |access-date = September 24, 2024}}}}

Toponymy

The name of the village, as it appeared for the first time in 1147 (in Sedena), is thought to refer to the Gallic tribe of the Adanates, or to be built on the root **Sed-, for rock, according to Charles Rostaing. According to , the name comes from a Pre-Celtic root oronym (mountain toponym), **Sed-.{{cite book |first1=Bénédicte |last1=Fénié |first2=Jean-Jacques |last2=Fénié |title=Toponymie provençale |language=fr |trans-title=Provencal Toponymy |publisher=Éditions Sud-Ouest |year=2002 |isbn=978-2-87901-442-5 |page=31 The municipality is named Sanha in the Vivaro-Alpine dialect and Provençal dialect of the , and Sagno in the Mistralian norm.

History

Antiquity

Before the Roman conquest, Seyne was the capital of the Adanates. It held the status of civitas under the Roman Empire.

Middle Ages

The first counts appeared in the area with the advent of c.950 of Boson, son of Rothbald. His grand-daughter later married the count of Toulose, the beginning of lengthy ties between the two cities. Seyne appeared in charters in 1146 ('in Sedena')

Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona forced the submission of Provençal barons who had revolted in the Baussenque Wars. After taking control of Arles, he summoned the lords of Haute-Provence to Seyne to renew their fealty. The Counts of Provence endowed the consulate as early as 1223 (1220 according to legal historian ), which served as a model to other consulates. Around the 1220s, a large tower was built to defend the city, which was then called Seyne-la-Grande-Tour. A regional council took place in 1267. The Saint-Jacques Hospital was founded in 1293, followed at the end of the 15th century by the Hôtel-Dieu. |first=Raymond |last=Collier |author-link=Raymond Collier |title=La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique |language=fr |trans-title=Monuments and Arts of Haute-Provence |location=Digne |publisher=Imprimerie Louis Jean |year=1986 |id=559 p. |page=434

The death of Joanna I of Naples opened a succession crisis at the head of the . The towns of the Union of Aix (1382-1387) supported Charles, Duke of Durazzo against Louis I, Duke of Anjou. The community supported the Durazzo side until 18 September 1385, then changed camp and joined the Angevins through the patient negotiations of Marie de Blois, Louis I's widow and regent of their son Louis II.{{cite journal |first=Geneviève |last=Xhayet |title=Partisans et adversaires de Louis d'Anjou pendant la guerre de l'Union d'Aix |language=fr |trans-title=Supporters and opponents of Louis of Anjou during the War of the Aix Union |journal=Provence Historique |publisher=Fédération historique de Provence |volume=40 |issue=162 |id="Autour de la guerre de l'Union d'Aix" |year=1990 |pages=417–418 and 419 The surrender of Seyne involved the communities of Couloubrous and Beauvillars.

The fair held in Seyne in the late Middle Ages benefitted from its crossroads location, and continued until the end of the Ancien Regime. Seyne was a baillie which subsequently became a seneschal headquarters: It included the communities of Auzet, Barles, La Bréole, Montclar, Pontis, Selonnet, Saint-Martin-lès-Seyne, Saint-Vincent, Ubaye, Verdaches, Le Vernet.

The community of Beauvillars, which had 88 feus at the enumeration of 1316, In the 15th century, the inhabitants of Beauvillars, who had wanted to secede, were massacred, the survivors were deported, and the name of Beauvillars was erased from the archives.

The community of Couloubrous (Colobrosium, cited in the 13th century), was also attached to 15th century Seyne. There were 19 feus in 1316,

Early modern (1483-1789)

In the middle of the 16th century, Protestantism took root in Seyne. Through the Edict of Amboise (1563), adherents of this religion were allowed to build a place of worship, but outside the municipality.{{cite journal |first=Yvette |last=Isnard |title=Les dynasties seigneuriales d'Oraison |language=fr |journal=Chroniques de Haute-Provence |location=Digne-les-Bains |publisher=Société littéraire et scientifique des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |year=2012 |issue=368 |page=34

The town was captured and looted by Protestant captain in the summer of 1560, during the Wars of Religion.{{citation |first=Jacques |last=Cru |title=Histoire des Gorges du Verdon jusqu'à la Révolution |language=fr |trans-title=History of the Verdon Gorges to the Revolution |publisher= and |year=2001 |isbn=2-7449-0139-3 |page=195 The town was again attacked by Protestants in 1574, who this time held it thereafter. The hid here in 1585, before the offensive of the Catholic League, without preventing the capture of the city by the Duke of Épernon. During the siege, the bell tower was destroyed.

At the end of the Wars of Religion, the Duke of Lesdiguières established a camp where he prepared his campaign to take Provence back from the Catholic Leaguers.

The Protestant Reformation had despite this fighting some success in Seyne, and some of the town's inhabitants remained Protestant. The Protestant community remained into the 17th century around their church, through the Edict of Nantes (1598). However, the Edict of Fontainebleau abolished the provisions of the edict of Nantes in 1688. It was fatal to the Protestant community, which disappeared, its people either emigrating or converted by force.

In 1656, the two hospitals (Hôtel-Dieu and hospital Saint-Jacques) merged into a single institution and moved to a shared building in 1734.

In 1690, the Marquis de Parelle led the Piedmontaise army of 5,000 men down from the Ubaye Valley and besieged Seyne. The city was forced to negotiate since the medieval enclosure was insufficient to ensure its defence, and a ransom was set at 11,000 livres. However, the militia of Provence and the succeeded in driving them back. On 24 December, funds were found and new bastions were built by Niquet. The new wall completed in August 1691 left the great tower outside of the city, but reinforced.

After a more serious alert in 1692, the entire Alpine border was reconsidered by Sebastien Vauban. In December 1692, he asked for the construction of a citadel including the great tower. led the work from 1693 to 1699. Although not satisfied during his inspection tour in 1700, Vauban failed to modify the fortifications, in part by building redoubts of setbacks in the north. The annexation of Ubaye by the Treaty of Utrecht removed the threat sufficiently for the work to be deferred indefinitely, (except for repairs to the walls in 1786).

The city was occupied in this condition by the Austro-Sardes in 1748 during the War of the Austrian Succession and again in 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The city was almost undefended at the end of the Ancien Régime, with nine guns served by a garrison of three invalids, and an arsenal of 93 guns.

The city was the seat of a viguerie until the French Revolution and an office of the at the end of the Ancien Régime.

French Revolution

Just before the French Revolution, unrest mounted. Several years of fiscal problems preceded a bad harvest in 1788 and a very cold winter of 1788-89. The election of the Estates-General of 1789 was prepared by elections for in 1788 and in January 1789, which highlighted the political oppositions of class and caused some agitation. At the end of March, as the cahiers de doléances were drawn up, a wave of insurrection shook Provence. A wheat riot occurred in Seyne on 29 March. Peasants gathered, protesting with shouts and threatens against the wealthy. However, the riot went no further, and did not cause any changes, unlike others in the region.

At first, reaction consisted in gathering the Maréchaussée staff. Then lawsuits were commissioned by the Parlement of Aix-en-Provence, but sentences were not carried out because of the storming of the Bastille and the Great Fear. In appeasement, an amnesty was announced in early August.

The fall of the Bastille was welcomed and thought to presage the end of arbitrary use of royal power, and perhaps profound changes. The advent of the new regime triggered a great phenomenon of collective fear that seized France, fear of an aristocrats conspiring to recover their privileges.

Rumours of armed soldiers devastating everything in their path spread rapidly, accompanied by gunfire, violence against nobles, and the organization of militias. The Great Fear came from Tallard, and awareness of the fear of the Mâconnais reached Seyne on the evening of 31 July 1789. The of Turriers and Bellaffaire, warned by those at Gap that a troop of 5-6,000 brigands was headed to Haute-Provence after plundering the Dauphiné, sent word to the consuls of Seyne, who sent word to Sisteron and Digne, thereby spreading the Great Fear. They also warned all parishes within the purview of the viguerie of Seyne, and sent messengers to Gap and Embrun to ask for news. The arsenal of the citadel was requisitioned, and 93 guns and nine cannons were distributed in Seyne and the villages of Saint-Pons, Selonnet and Chardavon. Men took refuge with their furniture and livestock away from the walls of the citadel.

That night, messengers from Rochebrune and La Motte confirmed the news, and added that Romans-sur-Isère had been sacked. From the south, disquieting news arrived of the occupation of Castellane by 4,000 and the advance of 1,000 Piedmont soldiers in the Durance Valley. On 2 August, the panic declined, as the facts became clearer. However, a significant change took place. All communities Department were to be armed, organized to defend themselves and to defend their neighbours. A sense of solidarity was born within communities and between neighbouring communities, and the consuls usually decided to maintain the National Guard on foot. As soon as the fear had settled, the authorities disarmed workers and landless peasants, and kept only landowners and business owners in the National Guard.

The of the municipality was created in the summer of 1792.

19th century

Seyne saw some industrialization in the 19th century with the development of textile industries.

As with many municipalities in this department, Seyne had schools well before the Jules Ferry laws. In 1863, it had five, one in the town proper and also in the villages of Pompiery, Bas-Chardavon, Pons and Couloubroux. These schools provided primary education for boys. In the main town, a school for girls was mandated by the Falloux Laws of 1851. The commune took advantage of subsidies from the second Duruy Law (1877) to rebuild or renovate its schools. Only the Bas-Chardavon school was not addressed.

Politics and administration

Trends in policies and results

List of mayors

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StartEndNamePartyOther details
May 1945Yves Ramus
19771989Guy DerbezUDF
March 19892008title=Francis Hermitte est candidat aux municipalespublisher=La Provencedate=13 January 2013
March 20082014André SalloumUMP
April 2014Current (as of 21 October 2014)url=http://www.alpes-de-haute-provence.gouv.fr/content/download/8410/45001/file/MAIRES_2014-1.pdf&title=Liste%20des%20mairespublisher=Préfecture des Alpes-de-Haute-Provencetitle=Liste des maires
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Environmental policy

Seyne is classified as a flower in the towns and villages floral competition.

Administration

A brigade of the National Gendarmerie is located in the town center of Seyne.

Population and society

Demography

Demographic evolution

In 2012, Seyne had 1419 inhabitants. Its population had been stagnant since 1999. In the 21st century, communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants only have a census every five years (2004, 2009 and 2014, etc. for Seyne). Since 2004, the other figures are estimates.

In 2008, the commune was 6,862nd in size in the national rankings. It was 6,215th in 1999, and of the 200 communes in the departement it ranked 22nd. |align = center |cols = 3 |footnote = |source = , Duby & for the Ancien Régime; EHESS; INSEE from 1968 | 1249|182 feus | 1263|200 feus | 1315|320 feus | 1471|182 feus | 1765|2556 | 1793|2557 | 1800|2557 | 1806|2720 | 1821|2952 | 1831|2795 | 1836|2881 | 1841|2894 | 1846|3069 | 1851|2686 | 1856|2485 | 1861|2508 | 1866|2511 | 1872|2312 | 1876|2241 | 1881|2162 | 1886|2195 | 1891|1902 | 1896|1786 | 1901|1715 | 1906|1718 | 1911|1620 | 1921|1360 | 1926|1255 | 1931|1205 | 1936|1204 | 1946|1173 | 1954|1148 | 1962|1183 | 1968|1222 | 1975|1214 | 1982|1287 | 1990|1222 | 1999|1441 | 2007|1427 | 2012|1419 | 2017|1362

The demographic history of Seyne, after the population losses of the 14th and 15th centuries, and the long period of growth until the beginning of the 19th century, was marked by a period of 'spread' where the population remained relatively stable at a high level. This period lasted from 1821 to 1861. The then caused a trend of long-term demographic decline. By 1921, the town had lost more than half its population from its maximum in 1846. The drop continued until the 1970s. Since then, population growth has resumed but without returning to the level of 1911.

Age pyramid

The population of the commune is relatively old. The proportion of people over 60 (34.1%) is higher than in France as a whole (21.6%) and the department (27.3%). Like national and departmental allocations, the female population of the commune is greater than the male population. The rate (52.2%) is of a similar order of magnitude as the national rate (51.6%).

The distribution of the population of the commune by age is, in 2007, as follows:

  • 47.8% of men (0–14 years = 18.4%, 15–29 years = 12.1%, 30-44 year olds = 17.1%, 45–59 years = 20.1%, more than 60 years = 32.3%)
  • 52.2% of women (0–14 years = 15.7%, 15–29 years = 10.5%, 30-44 year olds = 17.2%, 45–59 years = 20.8%, more than 60 years = 35.8%)

Education

The municipality has three educational institutions:

  • Two schools; a primary school and a kindergarten.
  • The Marcel-André College.

Health

A hospital is located in the municipality.

Economy

The economy of Seyne revolves around sports activities and tourism.

Industry

Alp'entreprise, active in the (BTP) sector, has 15 employees.

Tourism

The commune has an Alpine skiing ski station at Le Grand Puy and a Nordic skiing station at . Formerly, the town had one or two ski lifts to Col Saint-Jean. In 2024, the commune voted to close the Grand Puy ski facilities effective 1 November because there was no longer adequate snow. The lifts will be dismantled and other forms of tourism are under consideration.

, connecting Sainte-Foy to Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye, passes through Seyne.

Local culture and heritage

Sites and monuments

Fortifications

Medieval fortifications remain:

  • The fortified gate of the Rue Basse, from the 14th century.
  • The Tour Maubert, or great tower, a three-storey tower built outside the walls in the 12th century. This was built as a rectangle 12 m high connected to the town. It has been reviewed as under restoration.

The rest of the city wall enclosure in fact consisted of the walls of houses, built continuously, without openings to the outside.

In 1690-1691, the engineer Niquet began construction of a new, much larger enclosure with nine bastion towers, of which six survive. These towers had two levels, the lower a pentagonal, a design innovation of Niquet. The construction was reviewed by Vauban, who requested the addition of a citadel during his visit in 1692. The was built by , beginning in 1693, and completed in 1700. The wall was completed in 1705.

The , at the front line at the time of its construction, was found in the third line after the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which reunited the Ubaye Valley with France, was defended by two invalid companies to the Revolution, and a reduced garrison during the period between 1790-1815. The restoration added an advanced battery Passed from hand to hand, the commune bought it in 1977, and has since begun restoration work. The enclosure is a listed historic monument.

Civil architecture

Several houses on the streets of the old center date from the 17th century, including the old town hall on the main street and a house nearby from 1788, with an arched gate. Another house on the high street dates from 1605. A further house on the high street dates from 1708 and, nearby, one more dates from the end of the Middle Ages, with an overhang supported by corbels of wood mouldings. Other houses on the high street, retained in front of the arches, have characteristic medieval elements. However, these date to the 18th century.

The hospital was built in 1734. A carved bench, leather seat, and a five foot long table of beech from the 17th and the 18th centuries, currently kept at the town hall, originally came from the hospital. These items are classified as historic monument objects.

Several farms in the commune are fortified.

The Church of Our Lady of Nazareth

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The (Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth), built in Romanesque style, has completely retained its initial appearance. Legendarily attributed to Charlemagne, in fact construction of the present building can be traced back to the middle of the 12th century. The western façade is decorated with a large rose window with twelve rays and a sundial, composed on a marble slab, dating from 1878. The old porch has disappeared. Its arched portal has retained its carved capitals.

The nave, 28 ft long and 14.5 m high, The chancel has a flat chevet and is also barrel-vaulted. In front of the choir, two side chapels form a false transept. The portal of the south façade is Gothic, from the 13th or 14th century, notable for being framed by two separations of arches which rely on the surrounding buttresses.

The gate leaves date to 1631.

The church spire was rebuilt after the siege of the Duke of Épernon. Some renovation work (repointing, restoration of the southwestern buttresses) was done in 1967.

The capitals have carved human faces and characters with bodies twisted by torments that devils impose upon them.

The Holy Family altarpiece was painted directly onto the panel of the retable, in archaic style, during the 17th century. The wooden pulpit, carved and decorated, dates to the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries and is also a listed object.

The furnishings of the church include:

  • Several processional crosses, one of silver decorated with Champlevé enamels, (listed, 16th century)
  • A wood carving in high relief of Mary Magdalene, gilt, (18th century, listed)
  • The altar and the tabernacle of the Dominican convent, gilded wood, 17th century, listed)
  • An image of the Holy Family (16th century, listed)
  • A marble font by Maurin (17th century, classified)
  • A tabernacle placed under a baldachin at six feet, from the convent of the Trinitarian Order (16th century, listed)

Finally, the priest has full vestments (chasuble, dalmatic, clevis, veil covering the chalice, purse, stole, maniple), satin brocade, with colourful ornaments, and an undecorated cross of a landscape, from the 18th century. This set is unique in the department, and is also listed as an historic object.

Dominican Church

The Church of the Dominican Order, of classic style, has a relatively complex layout. In a nave with six bays, each wide span is followed by a narrow span, all flattened and barrel-vaulted. The narrow spans are filled with an oeil-de-boeuf, while the wide aisles are square bays.

Six reliquary busts, from the 17th century, are still archaic style and are listed as historic objects. The church is decorated with a Crucifixion of Jesus from the 17th century, in which Christ is surrounded by all the instruments of the Passion, two penitents and two angels, and is also a listed object. The convent, which forms part of the church, was built in 1683 and is a registered monument. The sacramental veil in the church is golden embroidered silk (67 cm by 71 cm). It represents two angels in prayer on either side of an altar on which a silver lamb has been sacrificed. This veil has been a listed object since 1908.

Chapels

The town has many surviving chapels:

  • Chapel of the Penitents, with a three-sided steeple, 17th–18th century.
  • The chapel of Saint-Pons, in Saint-Pons, from the beginning of the 17th century, with a nave of five bays and a Gothic bell tower from 1437). Its furnishings include a silver chalice from the 17th century, a listed historic object.
  • The chapels in the hamlets of Bas-Chardavonet, Haut-Chardavon, at Couloubroux, and Le Fault; at Maur, Pompiéry, Rémusats, and Haut-Savornin.

Museums

  • Ecomuseums: The tailor, the old school, the and the forge.

Events

  • Each year, during the second weekend of August, the last horse competition in France is held at Seyne (a competition for the best mule, with categories).
  • During the second weekend of October, an autumn fair is organized (cattle, horses, and a few other animals)

Notable people

Heraldry

| img1=Blason Seyne.svg | legend1=Arms of Seyne | text=Azure three-column rows in base topped by a cross potent between four crosses, all of gold.

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  18. depended administratively upon Seyne.Baratier, Duby & Hildesheimer, p. 164.
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  59. {{Base Mérimée. IA04000043. Notice no IA04000043
  60. Raymond Collier, p. 322
  61. {{Base Mérimée. IA04000042. fortification d'agglomération
  62. Raymond Collier, p. 323
  63. {{Base Mérimée. IA04000041. fortification d'agglomération dite enceinte médiévale
  64. Blanche (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). fr. 200. m long by {{convert. 50
  65. or [[hornwork]], a rebuilt door (1821), and some [[casemate]]s for rear firing and [[caponier]]s. It was decommissioned in 1866, then occupied by a single guard from 1887 to 1907, when it was sold.Guy Silve, p. 84
  66. {{Base Mérimée. PA00080484. Citadelle (ancienne)
  67. Raymond Collier, p. 369
  68. Raymond Collier, p. 369-370
  69. Collier, p. 370
  70. Collier, p. 518
  71. {{Base Palissy. PM04000420. table
  72. {{Base Palissy. PM04000419. banquette
  73. Collier, p. 74
  74. Collier, p. 88
  75. Collier, p. 80
  76. (2002). "Cadrans solaires des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence". Édisud.
  77. Collier, p. 81
  78. has three arched barrel [[Bay (architecture)
  79. Collier, p. 519
  80. The [[baptismal font]]s are {{convert. 4. m in diameter. The church has been a classified [[Monument historique. historic monument]] since 1862.{{Base Mérimée. PA00080486. Eglise
  81. Collier, p. 477.
  82. Collier,p. 517.
  83. {{Base Palissy. PM04000422. chaire à prêcher
  84. {{Base Palissy. PM04000414. croix de procession
  85. {{Base Palissy. PM04000410. haut-relief : sainte Madeleine
  86. {{Base Palissy. PM04000406. autel, tabernacle
  87. {{Base Palissy. PM04000404. tableau : sainte famille (la)
  88. {{Base Palissy. PM04000598. bénitier
  89. {{Base Palissy. PM04000421. autel (maître-autel)
  90. Collier, p. 531
  91. {{Base Palissy. PM04000405. chape, dalmatiques (2), chasuble
  92. Collier, p. 229
  93. Collier, p. 470.
  94. {{Base Palissy. PM04000418. bustes-reliquaires (6) : saint Placide, saint Prospère, sainte Candide, sainte Victoire, saint Justinien, saint Lucidius
  95. Collier, p. 478
  96. {{Base Palissy. PM04000417. tableau : Christ et les instruments de la passion entre deux anges et deux Pénitents (le)
  97. {{Base Mérimée. PA00080485. Couvent des Dominicains (ancien)
  98. Labadie, Jean-Christophe. (2013). "Catalogue de l'exposition à la cathédrale Saint-Jérôme (5 juillet-30 septembre 2013)". Musée départemental d’art religieux.
  99. {{Base Palissy. PM04000409. Veil of the Blessed Sacrament
  100. Collier, p. 225
  101. Collier, p. 188
  102. {{Base Palissy. PM04000746. calice
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