#General Labienus

[claude-frollo-archives]

Sketch by Illustrator David Etien, for the Idéfix et Les Irréductibles comic books.  

Artwork © David Etien, 2023.  

Idéfix et les Irréductibles © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and David Etien, Philippe Fenech, RUDY & Yves Coulon, 2023.

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Funniest things in Roma soy yo so far:

Sulla is the evilest man in the world even though we haven't seen him march on Rome or do anything else bad yet. He's just a bit catty with Marius. But that makes him eeeevil!

The optimates being presented as an organized political faction instead of the bickering tangle of ferrets they were 95% of the time.

The author trying really hard to portray Marius as a father figure/role model for Caesar, and to make this make sense the author has apparently yeeted Marius' real son from the narrative

Is Marius the Younger just hiding? Will he show up later to make a fool of himself when Sulla comes back? Is this actually an AU where Marius was infertile?? It's a mystery!

Marius still manages to be a terrible influence who drinks way too much wine and antagonizes the Senate on purpose

The author conveniently skipping over the Social War because Sulla outperformed Marius there

Sertorius does not get paid enough to deal with Marius' shit

So far there is more chemistry between Caesar and Labienus than between Caesar and his own wife. If Posteguillo manages to make me start shipping Caesar with something other than his own ego, I am going to throw something.

[soldatrose]

genuinely though. trying to conceptualize an au where caesar loses at munda is such a fascinating challenge because, what happens next?? it's not like the republic can just go back to normal (if it ever was normal)?? the first triumvirate is dead, cato, scipio and a great many senators and generals also, and most of the others are either caesarians or ex pompeians who turned their back on the cause after pompey's death. and from the few indications we have about gnaeus's character, he's not the merciful type. so you're looking at what is basically a political wasteland??

hey on the other hand maybe labienus skips a few steps and gets his first consulship

[annachum]

Hi, @zagreusofmiddle-earth , here are some Anglaius/Squareonthehypothenus Hcs that I came up with while watching the Idefix spinoff ( it's actually pretty good, albeit more kid audience oriented )

. Squareonthehypothenus was born to Pythagorus Theorus, a Notable Roman architect, and Trigonometria, a beautiful Greek healer specialising in alchemy

. Yes he came from the House of Theorus ( a rich Roman household with predominant members being of STEM backgrounds ).

. When he was 16 in 52 BC aka when the Idefix spinoff started. His parents decided to contact Labienus to have their son learn about advisory and architectural skills in Lutetia. I think Titus Labienus is an uncle of his from either his mom or dad's side. IDK.

. So yeah Anglaius was all excited. Cuz imagine being an advisor to one of Caesar's lieutenants ( up till Jan 49 BC ) and also gather new ideas of architecture there!

. Anglaius is quite a romantic. He is the kind of guy who would write romantic poems for his lady love ( Mansions of rhe Gods movie has him write a Welcome Speech to Caesar upon his arrival )

. Dude tells tall tales about the Indomitable Gauls to his friends ( like many other Romans who encountered them in person ), yet they all found it hard to believe them....until he shows them some proof.

. When Titus Labienus betrayed Caesar after he crossed the Rubicon in Jan 10 49 BC, Anglaius fled Lutetia and went back to Rome cuz he was HORRIFIED that a general he once looked up to actually betrayed Caesar and joined the Pompeiian fleets. Quintus Labienus joins his dad in joining the Pompeiian fleets too ( much to Anglaius' shock cuz I HC they became friends/associates due to Titus keeping in contact with his son via letters and Quintus sometimes visiting his dad whenever he was free )

. He was 21 during Mansions of the Gods aka during March/April 47 BC.....when Cleopatra was 6/7 months pregnant with Caesarion ( Caesar and Cleopatra's son )

. Well Anglaius ends up being a Chief architect of the Ptolemaic Egypt Court after Mansions of the Gods. He wasn't exempt from being a Gladiator in the Circus Maximus for a day ( alongside with Somniferus, and a fat senator )

. I bet Caesar told Cleopatra everything when he was visiting her ( while bearing expensive presents, he LOVES to pamper her with expensive presents and grand romantic gestures ) and she allowed Anglaius to be a Gladiator for a day.

. Also Cleopatra DEFINITELY knew about the Mansions of rhe Gods ( also a dedication present for Cleopatra ) for some time. Cuz srsly she would send a number of her Egyptian spies ( Ancient Egypt having VERY formidable spy forces ) after hearing that Caesar had 75000 civillians go to Gaul.

. Yet she just keep it hush for a while for amusements and shit and Caesar's face was PRICELESS after she told him that she knew for some time. But she was grateful for the gesture.

. Yeah let's just say that the Romans are SHOCKED when they heard that Cleopatra knew for some time lol

. Anglaius probably eventually got an Egyptian girlfriend later wife sometime after he moved to Egypt tho.

🤯🤯🤯😂😂😂🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.4 (before 1950)

46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1642 – English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 soldiers, attempts to arrest five members of Parliament for treason, only to discover the men had been tipped off and fled. 1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. 1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance. 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. 1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller. 1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. 1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule. 1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom. 1885 – Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam. 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death. 1909 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. 1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. 1918 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France. 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins. 1946 – The first day of a three-day “disastrous” tornado outbreak across the south-central United States leaves 41 people dead and at least 412 others injured. 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic.

[eightfourone]

can you imagine the cinematic masterpiece that would be the battle of Ruspina?

You're Caesar. You tripped and fell face first into africa. You lead half of your army out into the desert to capture a few towns to get supplies.

Then, a huge dust cloud appears on the horizon behind the legion. It's the entire numidian army. And who is leading them?

None other than Titus Labienus. Caesar's former right hand man in Gaul, and probably the second most accomplished Roman General left alive.

[newcityistanbul]

Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

[istanbuldaybg]

Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

[istanbultulip]

Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

[staristan]

Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

[claude-frollo-archives]

Idéfix et les Irréductibles: Les Romains se prennent une gamelle!

   On the second book of Idefix, Anglaigus appears in the story La Statue de Labienus, alas, the architect only appears on four pages, posted here for informative purposes.

Idéfix et les Irréductibles © René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo, and Hervé Benedetti, Michel Coulon, Simon Lecocq, Nicolas Robin, Jean Bastide and Philippe Fenech, and Editions Albert René, 2022.

La Statue de Labienus by Simon Lecocq (story) and Philippe Fenech (illustrations).

[just-late-roman-republic-things]

Sertorious, Lucullus, Ventidius, Sex. Pompey and Tiberius enter an underrappreciated roman generals competition. Who wins best general? (And why isn't it Tiberius so he can forever keep being the guy nobody appreciated)

What counts as "underrated" here?

No members of the first or second triumvirate, nor Marius or Sulla, who are almost as well-known, at least on classics Tumblr.

Primary military campaigns must have occurred between 133 and 27 BCE. (This rules out Tiberius.)

No one who is likely to show up in a blockbuster movie or miniseries. (This rules out Agrippa, who appeared in Cleopatra (1963) and Imperium: Augustus.)

[hitistanbul]

Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

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Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.

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46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. 1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance. 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. 1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. 1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir Twelve Years a Slave later becomes a national bestseller. 1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang. 1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany. 1878 – Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule. 1884 – The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom. 1885 – Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam. 1896 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by the owners of Luna Park, Coney Island. The Edison film company records the film Electrocuting an Elephant of Topsy's death. 1909 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. 1912 – The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter. 1918 – The Finnish Declaration of Independence is recognized by Russia, Sweden, Germany and France. 1944 – World War II: Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins. 1948 – Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic. 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time. 1956 – The Greek National Radical Union is formed by Konstantinos Karamanlis. 1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit. 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon. 1972 – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK. 1975 – This date overflowed the 12-bit field that had been used in TOPS-10. There were numerous problems and crashes related to this bug while an alternative format was developed. 1976 – The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation. 1987 – The Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route to Boston from Washington, D.C., collides with Conrail engines in Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people. 1989 – Second Gulf of Sidra incident: A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation. 1990 – In Pakistan's deadliest train accident an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train, resulting in 307 deaths and 700 injuries. 1998 – A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction. 1999 – Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota, United States. 2000 – A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta, Åmot; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident. 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC. 2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution. 2006 – Ehud Olmert becomes acting Prime Minister of Israel after the incumbent, Ariel Sharon, suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. 2007 – The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history. 2008 – A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people. 2010 – The Burj Khalifa, the current tallest building in the world, officially opens in Dubai. 2013 – A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines. 2018 – Hennenman–Kroonstad train crash: A passenger train operated by Shosholoza Meyl collides with a truck on a level crossing at Geneva Station between Hennenman and Kroonstad, Free State, South Africa. Twenty people are killed and 260 injured.

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Historic way of seeing Paris

That is the historic way of seeing Paris. But how many thousands of our tourists believe they know Paris as well as London, and have exhausted all its sights, and hurry through Paris, and yet they could not tell where the Convention had its hall, or how it came there, or where the bones of king and queen and the other victims of the guillotine were laid, and why they were thrown in that spot, or where the guillotine stood: nor have they seen the cells where Marie Antoinette and Danton, Vergniaud and the Girondins passed their last hours — or could distinguish the parts of the Louvre, or tell for whom the many L’s and H’s and M’s are inscribed — or where our Henry v. Lived when he was ruler of France after Azincourt, and where was the Palace of St. Louis, or of Philip Augustus, or Clovis, or the original Lutetia of the Parisii.

Let us try to group the record of Paris in historic epochs and in their right chronological order.

It is easy to realise the Latetia of the Romans, the first Gaulish settlement. Loukhteith, its Celtic name, is said to mean ‘the stronghold in the morass,’—not ‘mud-city,’ as Carlyle calls it, — nearly the same as Llyn-dyn, or London, which means the Lake-town. The island (or eyot as we say in the Thames), in the Seine a little below the junction of the Marne, where the Bievre flows into the Seine, formed an excellent fastness. Caesar has given a vivid account of the siege of Paris in 52 B.C., and from the top of the Pantheon we can stand and trace the campaign of Labienus, as told by the mighty general of Rome. The historic record of Paris thus begins 1946 years ago. It was a city of some, but not of great importance in the Roman Empire private tour istanbul, its most famous incident being that it was the favourite residence of the Emperor Julian in the middle of the fourth century. In a well-known passage in his Misopogon, he speaks of his dear Lutetia, of its soft and delightful climate, and the richness of its vines.

There is something strangely suggestive in the association of Paris with the brilliant, philosophical, wrongheaded young Caesar, with his paradoxical ideals, romantic adventures, and tragic end.

Roman remains called Les Thermes

It is well known that the grand Roman remains called Les Thermes, adjoining the Cluny Museum, belonged to the palace of the Caesars, the great hall forming the frigidarinm of the Baths, and the rest of the foundations have been fairly made out. Other Roman remains are the altar found under Notre Dame, many altars and tombs, both Pagan and Christian, a large collection of objects in the Carnavalet Museum, some remains of city walls of the fourth century, the famous inscription of the naiitae or watermen’s gild of Paris, two aqueducts, that of Arcueil on the south near Bicetre, and that of Chaillot near the Palais Royal, an amphitheatre, east of the Pantheon near the R. Monge, a second palace beneath the Conciergerie, several cemeteries and tombs, in the R. Vivienne on the north, and also in the south, a Roman camp, a factory of pottery, a mass of antiquities at Montmartre, the Mons Martis, I think, not the Mons Marty mm.

This forms a mass of Roman antiquities which together raise Paris to the rank of importance amongst the scanty remnants of ancient civilisation in Northern Europe. In the Thermes we have the Roman Louvre, in the altar of Jupiter the antitype of Notre Dame, in the cemetery of the R. Vivienne the Roman Phe-la-Chaise, in the foundations below the Palais de Justice, the Roman Hotel de Villc, in the Parvis de Notre Dame perhaps the Roman Forum, the predecessor of the Place de Grlve.

There is seldom to be met so striking a bit of city topography as the long history of evolution in the Cite, or island, of Paris. First, it was a group of palisaded eyots in a broad river spreading out on both sides into swamps — the river stronghold of a tribe called by the Romans Parisii, a word possibly connected with Bar, which is thought to signify a frontier (Bar-sur-Aube, etc.). Then this river stronghold is joined to the mainland by two bridges not in a straight line but at opposite ends of the island and both doubtless defended; it is next a Roman city, ultimately walled, with its central temple, its municipality, its quays, and some outlying buildings, the Imperial Palace, the amphitheatre, cemeteries, camp, and the like, on the mainland, both north and south: one bridge, now the Pont au change, opening into the Place du Chdtelet; the smaller bridge, now Petit Pont, higher up the river over the narrow arm, at the end of the R. St. Jacques.