The Martyred Towns of France by Clara E. Laughlin
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II AMIENS WITH the single exception of Reims, none of the towns included within the scope of this book attained as Gallo-Roman cities anything like the size, importance, or splendour of the cities in south-eastern France. But Amiens was a capital of considerable importance when Julius Caesar, soon after he took it, convoked there a general assembly of all Gaul. He tells us that he left three legions (that is to say, eighteen thousand infantry and their supporting troops) there to preserve authority and prevent revolt. A hundred years later, three thousand Roman soldiers sufficed to garrison the whole vast region of transalpine Gaul; and soon thereafter not even those were necessary—and Rome could (and did) concentrate her troops "along the frontier of the Rhine," to hold the Germans east of it where they belonged. The process by which Rome assimilated Gaul into the Empire is so interesting that I am going to recall a few points of it here, in this chapter on Amiens, to freshen the memory of readers who may not have given much thought to such things since they were in school. The famous "three parts" into which "all Gaul" was divided were really four: "the Province" (Provenge), Aquitania, Lyonnais, and Belgium—the first under the authority of the Roman senate, and the other three directly subject to the emperor. As time went on, the emperors made new subdivisions of their territory, in the interest of easier government, until there were seventeen provinces and sixty "cities"; a city was not only the capital of a people but all their territory—sometimes as much in extent as one of the present departments of France. And these "cities" were of three categories: there were the "allies" of Rome which had not resisted her conquest, like Reims; and there were twelv...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780548070185
  • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 32 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0548070180
  • Publisher Date: 25 Jul 2007
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 492
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 938 gr


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