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* Louis Figuier (née Juliette Bouscaren), ''Le gardian de la Camargue - Mos de Lavêne'', coll. « Auteurs célèbres », C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, Paris, 1889, 249 p. * Pierre Lanéry d’Arc, Les maisons-types de la Provence, chap. 35 de ''Enquête sur les conditions de l'habitation en France. Les maisons-types'', t. 1, Ministère de l'instruction publique, Ernest Leroux, Paris, 1894, pp. 207–248. * de) Flandresy Jeanne, Charles-Roux Jules, Mellier Etienne, ''Le livre d'or de la Camargue'', tome I, Le pays; les mas et les châteaux; le Rhône camarguais, Librairie A. Lemerre, Paris, 1916, 437 p. *

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, Les chaumières à abside de la Camargue : la cabane, origine, description, mode de construction, dans ''Revue du folklore français'', t. 9, 1938, No 2, avril-juin, pp. 51–53, pl. h. t. *

, Les coutumes, l'habitation et les fêtes n Camargue dans ''Le Chêne'', numéro spécial, No 16, 1938, pp. 100–112. * (d')Elly Rul, ''La Camargue gardiane'', Michel Delaveau, Paris, 1938, 165 p. * Carle Naudot, ''Ethnographie du pays d'Arles. Contribution au folklore de Camargue'', Le Seden, 1947. * Henri Marc, Carle Naudot, Victor Quenin, ''Terre de camargue - Terro Camarguenco'', Arthaud, Grenoble-Paris, 1948, 159 p. * Jean-Luc Massot, ''Maisons rurales et vie paysanne en Provence'', Serg, 1975. * René Baranger, ''En Camargue avec Baroncelli'', l'auteur, Clichy, 1983, 164 p. * Guy Châtel, La selle gardiane et le harnachement camarguais, dans ''Courrier du Parc'', No 45-46, 1995.

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Cabanes entièrement en roseau des années 1900

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