Les stations thermales de Tunisie à l'époque coloniale

• Autores: Dominique Jarrassé
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 165, 2009, págs. 19-29
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • A discussion of spas in Tunisia during the Colonial period. In the early 19th century, Tunisian spas drew on three civilizations with a tradition of baths: Roman, Muslim, and Colonial. This exotic heritage, often associated with religious substrata, did not only belong to the colony; it also showed up in spas in metropolitan France, where Antique and Oriental allusions were manifold. Influences moved in both directions, to the extent that spas in North Africa wound up being “Orientalized.” The exploitation of natural resources was, effectively, the same in Tunisia as in the provinces of the Hexagon. The process of “Arabisance,” which sought to blend imported facilities with the environment, was rejected in the 1960s.