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Documents and archives
The documentary collection
The funds and works cited are those of archivists, researchers, families, and institutions. We cite them, credit them, and refer to them.
Archives and private collections
Aude Departmental Archives
Ancient texts, geometric and iconographic documents: cadastral matrices, Napoleonic and revised cadastral plans, reports from the mining service, notarial acts.
Philippe Allevy Fund
Plans, inventories, correspondence and photographs relating to the thermal establishment — including the handwritten memoirs of Octavie Lassave, the treatment certificates (1878–79) and the water analysis (1907). Private archives deposited at the Departmental Archives of Aude.
Eric Sentucq Private Fund
Old postcards.
Labouche Fund
Phototypie Labouche frères, Toulouse — old postcards.
Notarial deed dated January 4, 1808
Water rights settlement with the inhabitants of the village; the Sainte-Eulalie spring is called the "fountain of sorrows".
A practical guide for bathers
Lagarde, 1902. Source of flow rates, temperatures and uses of the time, as well as the description of the frozen spring. gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
Heritage studies and inventories
DELOUSTAL, Laetitia. “Ginoles-les-Bains Spa Resort”
File IA11000257, Inventory of the thermal heritage of Occitanie, Occitanie Region / University of Perpignan Via Domitia, CRESEM laboratory, 2020 (updated 2024). A documented file for each building. View the file
LA TAILLE, Alice de. “The thermal heritage of the early 20th century in the Pyrenees”
Patrimoines du Sud, no. 16, 2022, published online on September 1, 2022. doi.org/10.4000/pds.10462
GRENIER, Lise (ed.). Spa Towns in France
Exhibition catalogue, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January 16 – March 24, 1985. Paris, Institut français d'architecture, distributed by Hazan, 1985, 397 p.
Administrative and institutional documents
Intermunicipal local urban development plan of the Aude Pyrenees
Pyrénées Audoises Intermunicipal Authority. Approved December 19, 2019, applicable since February 9, 2020; successive amendments 2020–2023. Framework of the flood risk prevention plan which governs the uses of the bathing gallery. pyreneesaudoises.fr
Court of Auditors. "Thermalism and local authorities, a fragile system: the Occitan case"
2019 Annual Public Report, Volume I, Paris, pp. 433–460. ccomptes.fr
Quality of Life World Foundation Statutes
Belgian public utility foundation, recognized by royal decree.
The icy spring
Described in the 1902 bather's guide: a spring whose water remains at 0°C in all seasons and never freezes, even in the harshest winters. Never exploited, never forgotten.
Credits and Preliminary Projects
Photographs of the current state
D.Maugendre – Heritage Inventory - Occitanie Region
Jeremy Chamot-Rossi — web rights confirmed.
Vintage postcards
Private collection Éric Sentucq; Phototypie Labouche frères, Toulouse.
Old documents and iconography
Aude Departmental Archives; Philippe Allevy Collection; gallica.bnf.fr / National Library of France.
Heritage inventory
Laetitia Deloustal, file IA11000257, Inventory of the thermal heritage of Occitanie — Occitanie Region / University of Perpignan Via Domitia, CRESEM laboratory, 2020, updated 2024.
Architectural design
Enrico Guiguilé, Architect – L’Oasis 2025 – [pdf]
RAYNAUD Jean-Luc Architect DPLG | VIZCAINO Christian Architect DPLG | SARL CEBAT Construction Economist | BET ENTEC LR BET FLUIDES – Hotel des tilleuls and Hotel Saint Eulalie 2019 - [pdf]
VIZCAINO Christian Architect DPLG - L'Oasis 2022 - [pdf]
Emma Sablayrolles Architect – Final Year Project 2026 - [pdf]
Landscape
Adrien Felsmann, eco-landscape architect - Sketch - [pdf]
The icy spring
Described in the 1902 bather's guide: a spring whose water remains at 0°C in all seasons and never freezes, even in the harshest winters. Never exploited, never forgotten.
The icy spring
Described in the 1902 bather's guide: a spring whose water remains at 0°C in all seasons and never freezes, even in the harshest winters. Never exploited, never forgotten.
Any credit errors or omissions will be corrected upon simple notification to contact@ginoles-les-bains.fr .
The icy spring
Described in the 1902 bather's guide: a spring whose water remains at 0°C in all seasons and never freezes, even in the harshest winters. Never exploited, never forgotten.