Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Porte Renaissance de l'Académie
Puylaurens, Tarn, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- La porte du siège de l'Académie protestante, ancien hôtel de Solignac, remontée dans le jardin du temple, située 26 rue Foulinou (cad. L 144) : inscription par arrêté du 7 juillet 2015
- Protection dates
- 2015/07/07 : inscrit MH
- Type
- porte
- Main period of construction
- 19e siècle
- Ownership
- propriété d'une association
- Address
- 26 rue Foulinou
- Commune
- Puylaurens
- Département
- Tarn
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 43.57322, 2.01175
- Mérimée reference
- PA81000052
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1750 map "Composite 15: Carte de France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Situé entre Toulouse et Castres, Puylaurens a joué un rôle primordial dans l'histoire du protestantisme aux 16e et au 17e siècles grâce à son rôle de place forte, essentiel durant les guerres de Religion. La ville accueille l'académie de théologie protestante chassée de Montauban et devient un foyer intellectuel
English translation
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History
Situated between Toulouse and Castres, Puylaurens played a primordial role in the history of protestantism in the 16th and 17th centuries thanks to its role as a stronghold, essential during the Wars of Religion. The town welcomes the protestant theology academy expelled from Montauban and becomes an intellectual centre.
Nearby in the register
- Temple protestanttempleunder 1 mi
- Maison-atelier du peintre Carrademaison2 mi
- Pigeonnier du Colombierpigeonnier3 mi
- Château de Padiéschâteau3 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.