A sign on the A6 motorway around 250 km southeast of Paris indicates the turn-off for Alesia MuséoParc. In 52 BC Alesia was where the Roman general Julius Caesar achieved one of his most significant ...
He may have lost a battle, but Gallic chieftain Vercingetorix won something greater: status a French national hero. Each summer, a Burgundy... How Gaul-ing! Celebrating France's First Resistance ...
In September 52 BC, Julius Caesar had a problem. He was deep inside Gaul (modern day France) besieging his last great Gaul enemy, Vercingetorix, at the latter’s fort of Alesia. With his force of ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Roman army and the Gallic tribes battle in a work at the MuseoParc Alesia. The name Vercingetorix, or Great Warrior King, is a ...
HEMINGWAY, ORWELL, Joyce, Turgenev: many great foreign writers have found inspiration in France. But for lasting influence, one scribe stands above them all. He travelled around France for nine years, ...
In 2022, the INRAP (National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research) and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Foundation of Clermont-Ferrand launched an archaeological campaign in the ...
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause, ...
During the era when the Roman Republic was extending its influence over the Italian peninsula, its citizens referred to those of its rival, Carthage, as Punici, an appellation derived from the ...
Every summer, a village in eastern France celebrates a Gallic chieftain who lost a major battle to Julius Caesar in 52 B.C. Despite that defeat, the mythic Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, is a ...
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