【看法国】历史拾零：Vercingetorix，Lutèce，。。。

The Dying Gaul and the Ludovisi Gaul

Discovering Nîmes, the French Rome


Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486. While the Celtic Gauls had lost their original identities and language during Late Antiquity, becoming amalgamated into a Gallo-Roman culture, Gallia remained the conventional name of the territory throughout the Early Middle Ages, until it acquired a new identity as the Capetian Kingdom of France in the high medieval period. Gallia remains a name of France in modern Greek (Γαλλία) and modern Latin (besides the alternatives Francia and Francogallia).
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Gaul was systematically romanized after the conquest by Caesar. Roads, aqueducts and cities with baths and theaters were built.
The mixing of the Roman language of Latin and local Celtic tongues created the French tongue.

The Romans ruled what is now France for more than 500 years. They annexed Provence in 121 B.C. and subdued the Gauls
during the Gallic Wars between 58 and 51 B.C. Gaul became part of the Roman empire when Julius Caesar defeated Vercingetorix
in 52 B.C. The first assembly of Gauls was held in A.D. 12. The Romans founded numerous cities and towns that remain today,
including Arles, Lyon, Autun, Frejus, Orange, Nimbe, Narbonne and Vienne.

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法国波尔多市梅花广场上的高卢雄鸡雕像


高盧雄雞（法語:Le Coq gaulois），或高盧公雞，是法國的擬物化形象。
高盧雄雞來源於羅馬帝國時代，法蘭西被稱為高盧（Gallia），高盧人叫Gallus，而Gallus在拉丁語另一意思是雄雞，所以被稱為高盧雄雞。
在法兰西第一共和国的國徽上，有雄雞（或雄鷹）的圖案，而現代法國的法國國家足球隊的標誌上也有雄雞的形象。

The Gallic rooster (French: le coq gaulois, Gallic cock) is an unofficial national symbol of France as a nation,
as opposed to Marianne representing France as a State, and its values: the Republic.
The rooster is also the symbol of the Wallonia region and the French Community of Belgium.

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