French History from Caesar to Waterloo
Nonfiction, Art & Architecture, Architecture, History, France
| Author: | Mary Robinson | ISBN: | 9781537808956 |
| Publisher: | Jovian Press | Publication: | December 3, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mary Robinson |
| ISBN: | 9781537808956 |
| Publisher: | Jovian Press |
| Publication: | December 3, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
When Julius Caesar invaded the country, some fifty years before the birth of Christ, he found it divided into three principal parts: there was Aquitaine, the land of springs and waters, extending, in the southwest, from the ocean to the Garonne, already a land of pleasant life, rich in commerce and refinement; there was Celtic Gaul, the west, which reached from the Atlantic to the Marne and the Seine; and there was Belgian Gaul (as Caesar calls it), that north-eastern space between the Seine and the Rhine: an expanse which roughly corresponds to the provinces devastated by the Great War...
When Julius Caesar invaded the country, some fifty years before the birth of Christ, he found it divided into three principal parts: there was Aquitaine, the land of springs and waters, extending, in the southwest, from the ocean to the Garonne, already a land of pleasant life, rich in commerce and refinement; there was Celtic Gaul, the west, which reached from the Atlantic to the Marne and the Seine; and there was Belgian Gaul (as Caesar calls it), that north-eastern space between the Seine and the Rhine: an expanse which roughly corresponds to the provinces devastated by the Great War...
