In Troubadour-Land by Sabine Baring-Gould

The Trémaïé -- Representation of C. Marius, Martha, and Julia -- The Gaïé -- The Teutons and Ambrons and Cimbri threaten Italy -- C. Marius sent against them -- His camp at S. Gabriel -- The canal he cut -- The barbarians cross the Rhone -- First brush with them -- They defile before him at Orgon -- The rout of the Ambrons at Les Milles -- He follows the Teutons -- The plain of Pourrières -- Position of Marius -- The battle -- Slaughter of the Teutons -- Position of their camp -- Monument of Marius -- Venus Victrix -- Annual commemoration.

The two oldest and most interesting monuments of Les Baux have been unnoticed in the last chapter. These are the sculptured stones of Trémaïé and Gaïé. They are two limestone blocks fallen from the precipices above, lying on the flounce of rubble near the bottom of the promontory of Les Baux, the one on the east the other on the south. That on the east, La Trémaïé, consists of a block of shell-limestone about twenty-five feet high, in which, twelve feet from the soil, is sculptured a semicircular headed niche, five and a half feet high by four and a half feet wide, that contains a group of three personages, a bearded man on the left of the observer, a tall woman in the centre wearing a mitre, and on the right another woman. At first glance, I confess I supposed this was a bit of sculpture of the eleventh century, but on climbing to the roof of the chapel erected beneath the niche, some forty-five years ago, I was able to examine the group minutely, and satisfied myself that the work is of the Classic period.