Unlike everyone else in the Gaul village still holding out against the Roman forces, the ancestor of the village chief Vitalsttistix, Vercingetorix, a real Gaulish figure, warrior and chief. He has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve read the Asterix comic books, you’ll know that the Gauls gave the Romans a torrid time in years immediately BC. Characters Asterix and Obelix are fictional, but they were inspired by famous ...

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 ...