Sorry to be late:
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>"Nos vierges noires: leurs origines", by Emile Male, Paris, Ed.
>Universelles, 1945, 271p.
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>"Vierges romanes: les vierges assises", by Rene Laurentin et Raymond Oursel.
>Yonne, Zodiaque, 1988, 109p.
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>"Les vierges noires: Melusine, l'origine et le sens des contes de fees:
>essais", by Pierre Gordon. Neuilly-Seine, A. Artis, 1983, 72p.
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>"Etude sur l'origine des vierges noires", by Marie Durand-Lefebvre, Paris,
>G. Durasse, 1937, 194p.
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>"Decouvertes nouvelles sur 3 cathedrales occitanes a l'ombre discrete de
>leurs vierges noires", Vincennes, Altantis, 1987, 95p.
>
>Cheers.
>Claire Labrecque
>Un.Laval, Quebec.
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Sorry to be even later (forgot to take the relevant notes with me to the
`factory')
E. Saillens, Nos vierges noires et leurs origines, Paris 1945
S. Cassagnes-Brouquet, Vierges noires, regard et fascination, Rodeze 1990
I took these references from an article which I am reading at the moment
(loads of work, so I have not finished it): Sylvie Vilatte, La "devote image
noire de Nostre-Dame" du Puy-en-Velay: histoire du reliquaire roman et de
son noircissement, in: Revue Belge de philologie et d'histoire 74 (1996)
727-760 which attacks the `heathen origins' of these black virgins as was
proposed by i.a. the above mentioned works of Saillens and Durand-Lefebvre
I hope this is still of some use,
Bram van den Hoven van Genderen
Department of History
University of Utrecht
Kromme Nieuwegracht 66 3512 HL Utrecht Netherlands
Fax: 302536391 Phone: 302537860
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