Legend of the Pont du Gard
| All major buildings in the region such as the Pont du Gard and the Pont Saint Benezet in Avignon speaks of the same legend. This story mixes man (St. Benezet in Avignon, a master mason to the Pont du Gard), the devil, a woman and an animal. The legend written by Frédéric Mistral in the Provencal language that tells Pont du Gard, certainly the finest work yet in the world was built in one night. One night that could do this? if not the devil, the devil. |
The master builder who had to build this bridge on a price that is discouraged because it could not overcome his book. Each time he had built a party, the Gardon furious prevailed. The poor are desperate, it was the third time that the Gardon he played a bad round. "It is now too, cursed life there would be enough to give the devil. And now the devil appears. And offered him:" If you want I'll build your deck and the world as a world will never, never The Gardon will not prevail "I said the mason, but how will you pay me? "Oh not much said the devil, just to pass the first bridge will be for me ..... "Okay" said the poor bricklayer. And the devil, affairs and current on one side and the other flies in the mountains of huge blocks and built a bridge as they had never seen like that. But the poor bricklayer, was a little stunned to find his wife went to tell him his pact with the devil. "The bridge will be finished tomorrow at the first hours of dawn, but this is not all it takes is a poor lost for condemning others. |
"Que tu es nigaud said his wife, our dog had caught a hare all alive. Take it, put it in a bag and the tip of the blade releases on deck! "You're right" said the man. He takes the hare, is in the bag and returns to the bridge just at the edge of the Angelus and the hare starts on deck. |
