In 52 BC, Julius Caesar faced one of the most dangerous moments of his military career at the Siege of Alesia. Vercingetorix ...
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 ...
The name Vercingetorix, or Great Warrior King, is a mouthful of spiky syllables. But for the French, drilled from an early age in the melancholy tale of the young Gallic chieftain who made Rome ...
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, ...