RT Article
T1 THE PHILOSOPHICAL CITY OF RABELAIS AND ST TERESA— LE CORBUSIER AND EDOUARD TROUIN'S SCHEME FOR ST BAUME
JF Literature and theology
VO 13
IS 2
SP 111
OP 125
A1 Samuel, Flora
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 1999
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1780306873
AB In the years following the Second World Ward, Edouard Trouin and the architect Le Corbusier put enormous effort into a design for a city and underground basilica focussing on the grotto of Mary Magdalene in St Baume in the south of France. The spiritual programme for the project was to be governed by a synthesis of ideas derived from the works of Rabelais and St Teresa, an unlikely combination. What follows is an exploration of their influence on the development of this ambitious scheme.
DO 10.1093/litthe/13.2.111