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This is as much an appeal for information as it is presenting it, but I was reading a book that mentioned a legend that treasure from Ancient Greece is sunk in a lake underneath the Basilica of St. Sernin in Toulouse, France. I tried googling to explore the story further, but have come up with fairly slim pickings. (Which may be on me for not asking the right question.)
The short Wikipedia entry is borderline incoherent. As the header notes, the page does have "some issues":
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_of_Tolosa
This appears to have been written by someone whose first language is not English, and it peters out at the end, but presents the story more-or-less as I originally read it:
http://southweststory.com/wp/the-hidden-gold-treasure-of-toulouse
This one is fringey, Pagan childbirth rituals and the Black Madonna there seem to be the main focus, but also alludes to the legend of the plundered gold in the lake beneath the church.
http://www.interfaithmary.net/pages/Toulouse.htm
Anyone hear about this story before? Any good, straightforward English language links? Or maybe a fluent French reader could find out something about the archeological dig this summer that the author of link #2 mentions in passing? Did it appear in a Classical Corner column in FT and I missed it? I feel like are some tantalizing bits to a great story, but it would be lovely to read a fuller version.
The short Wikipedia entry is borderline incoherent. As the header notes, the page does have "some issues":
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_of_Tolosa
This appears to have been written by someone whose first language is not English, and it peters out at the end, but presents the story more-or-less as I originally read it:
http://southweststory.com/wp/the-hidden-gold-treasure-of-toulouse
This one is fringey, Pagan childbirth rituals and the Black Madonna there seem to be the main focus, but also alludes to the legend of the plundered gold in the lake beneath the church.
http://www.interfaithmary.net/pages/Toulouse.htm
Anyone hear about this story before? Any good, straightforward English language links? Or maybe a fluent French reader could find out something about the archeological dig this summer that the author of link #2 mentions in passing? Did it appear in a Classical Corner column in FT and I missed it? I feel like are some tantalizing bits to a great story, but it would be lovely to read a fuller version.