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  2. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    This is a timeline of French history, comprising important legal changes and political events in France and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of France. See also the list of Frankish kings, French monarchs, and presidents of France.

  3. Timeline of Dijon - Wikipedia

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    The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dijon, France. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .

  4. Timeline of Montpellier - Wikipedia

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    Daniel C. Haskell, ed. (1922), "Provencal literature and language, including the local history of southern France", Bulletin of the New York Public Library, vol. 26, hdl:2027/mdp.39015035117657, Local history: Montpellier; Robert Darnton (2009). "A bourgeois puts his world in order: the city as a text".

  5. Pile (monument) - Wikipedia

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    A pile is a massive, tower-shaped monument, square or rectangular in plan, with a niche in its upper part, originally housing a statue; [15] this definition excludes monuments such as the Cinq-Mars pile or the Tour de Pirelonge (no niche), the Tourasse d'Aiguillon (circular plan) or the Tour de Mézolieux (hollow monument with a funerary chamber).

  6. Sanctuary of the Three Gauls - Wikipedia

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    The altar of the Sanctuary of the Three Gauls, on a dupondius issued under Augustus (Musée d'archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, inv. 2396 N). The Sanctuary of the Three Gauls (Tres Galliae) (French: Sanctuaire fédéral des Trois Gaules) was the focal structure within an administrative and religious complex established by Rome in the very late 1st century BC at Lugdunum (the ...

  7. History of Amiens - Wikipedia

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    Today, the Saint-Acheul archaeological garden is open to the public [1] and presents a landscape of the former quarries which were classified as Historic Monuments in 1947. [ 2 ] In 2007, archaeological excavations, at the Rue du Manège , uncovered the earliest traces of human occupation in Amiens, in an alluvial aquifer perched at 35 metres ...

  8. Gaul - Wikipedia

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    Warbands led by the Gaul Brennos sacked the city of Rome in 387 BC, becoming the only time Rome was conquered by a foreign enemy in 800 years. However, Gallia Cisalpina was conquered by the Romans in 204 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by ...

  9. History of Toulouse - Wikipedia

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    The history of Toulouse, in Occitania, southern France, traces back to ancient times. After Roman rule, the city was ruled by the Visigoths and Merovingian and Carolingian Franks . Capital of the County of Toulouse during the Middle Ages , today it is the capital of the Midi-Pyrénées region.