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...Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the battles and intrigues that took place in the nine year...

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...gs made this history that of the successive struggles of the successively ruled with the successively ruling classes. In the first volume we meet the Gallic chief Joel, whose descendants will typify the oppressed throughout the suite of novels. Joel and his son invite a traveller to share their supper one evening, curious as they are to hear his stories. When he refuses, t...

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...gh they were far too beauti- ful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend of St. Genevieve, the Letter of Gertr... ...ians, and one brother, named Quintus, killed a re- markably large and tall Gallic chief in single combat. Brennus was justly enraged, and sent messeng... ...on, still under shelter of night, clambered down the rock, and crossed the Gallic camp before the barbarians were yet awake. There was hope in the lit... ...- gry men. After a time, there was a report from the outer guards that the Gallic watch had been telling them that their leader would be willing to sp... ... A Book of Golden Deeds ing sharp, when there was a confused outcry in the Gallic camp, a shout from the heights of the Capitol, and into the midst of... ...th of the whole narrative is greatly doubted, and it is suspected that the Gallic conquest was more complete than the Romans ever chose to avow. Their... ...ion was leading to Romans of inferior classes settling themselves in other Gallic cities. The first rising of the Gauls began by a quarrel at the city... ...city of Gergovia; but at length, owing to the revolt of the Aedui, another Gallic tribe, Caesar was forced to retreat over the Loire; and the wild pea... ...in battle array, with the Eagle standards around him, he watched the whole Gallic army march past him. First, Vercingetorix was placed as a prisoner i...

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...the stranger 22 The Exiles were talking together, not in Latin nor in any Gallic tongue, but in an unknown language, and very gravely. They pointed w...

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...orizon; and how tempests were rising that were to blow to pieces our Anglo-Gallic temple of friendship. Oh, but it is sad to think that a single wicke...

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... and sentiment. Well meaning people waste much time in seeking to prove that Gallic and Anglo Saxon minds take the same view of such matters, and that...

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...t yet dead, if thou wilt look, nor like to die. The French too, with their Gallic- Ethnic excitability and effervescence, have, as we have seen, real ... ...w drink mean liquor, it was consistent with their ways so to swear it. Our Gallic-Encyclopedic friends, again, must have a Champ-de-Mars, seen of all ... ...ller answering with mere fictions to please them, and get off. ’ (De Bello Gallico, iv. 5.) Nineteen hundred years; and good Dampmartin, wayworn, in w... ... Clootz Speaker of Mankind, Paine the rebellious Needleman, and honourable Gallic Vin- dicators in that country and in this: but the great Burke remai...

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..., trusting to the steady, tireless, concentrated aim of her France. In the Gallic mind of our time, France appears as a prematurely buried Glory, that... ...—too conclusively from the breath on the glass at the moment, as it is the Gallic habit—that if her dear Nesta must espouse one of the uninteresting c... ...ssian, and upon the English curate Mr. Semhians, and upon M. Falarique—set Gallically pluming and crow- ing out of an Alsace-Lorraine growl—were cleve... ...aid. ‘The best in life is a good woman.’ Skepsey exhibited his book of the Gallic howl. ‘They have their fits now and then, and they’re soon over and ... ...to declaim and prove the superior merits of 396 One of Our Conquerors the Gallic tongue, jumped me to bravo the cleverness. And Bobinikine turning to...

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...and blind. A Frenchman or an Italian (for the Italian, in many features of Gallic insensibility, will be found ultra- Gallican) can understand a state... ...ask for a name or two, just as a speci- men, from this great host of Anglo-Gallic wits. Pope felt (and groaned as he felt) that so reasonable a demand...

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...n’t seem so huge elsewhere, or the tight stockings of the maid-servants so Gallic. The churches and the ram- parts, and the little soldiers on them, ... ...ch have a much more Eastern look than the European quarter, with its Anglo-Gallic-Italian inhab- itants, and Babel-like civilisation. Here and there a...

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... a Massachusetts suburb, and dwelt hope- fully on the “higher side” of the Gallic nature. With equal vivid- ness she set before him the component figu... ...aking the slip-covers off her drawing-room chairs. Her long resi- dence on Gallic soil had not mitigated her hostility toward the creed and customs of...

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... shall become world-famous in solving it. For the Twenty-five millions are Gallic effervescent too;—filled both with hope of the unutterable, of unive... ...at, as signal that the country is near ruined. A fiercely effervescent Old-Gallic Assemblage!—Ah, how the loud sick sounds of Debate, and of Life, whi... ...e irreverent, was like to be massacred in his Gig, as the thing went by. A Gallican Hierarchy, and Church, and Church Formulas seemed to flourish, a l...

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...ht be pronounced English, though even there one caught a dash of something Gallic; but he had no English shyness: he had learnt somewhere, somehow, th... ...both by birth and parentage), yet the degree of harshness inseparable from Gallic lineaments was, in his case, softened by a mild blue eye, and a mela...

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...be loath to see, since I have and bear great respect for the refuse of our Gallic antiquities. Bear in mind also, ye wild critics, you scrapers-up of ...

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...e was as rusee as a politician who had followed all the tergiversations of Gallic policy, since the year ’89. She was fully aware of what a prize she ...

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... He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’ and he spoke French passably, be- ing quite... ...There was elegance in his gestures; he looked a gentleman, though an ultra-Gallican one, that is, too scrupulously finished for our taste, smelling of... ...amp had the history of Dame Philiberte recounted to him, with a mixture of Gallic irony, innuendo, openness, touchingness, ridicule, and charity novel... ... M. d’Orbec and irritated M. Livret. The latter delivered a brief essay on Gallic blood; the former maintained that Frenchmen were the best judges of ... ...arly discreet in all that he says: and next, he should have known that the Gallic shrug over matters political is volcanic—it is the heaving of the mo...

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...o one but King Louis!’ ‘That is plain to be seen!’ said Mr. Thompson. ‘The Gallic cock crows early. But is he indeed the son of Count Bourke, about wh...

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...d. He gave vent to witty little remarks and flowery speeches in his German-Gallic patois, very observing and very quaint and said with an air which di...

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...THE REVOLUTION I Not yet had History’s Aetna smoked the skies, And low the Gallic Giantess lay enchained, While overhead in ordered set and rise Her k... ...o reperuse, With eyes behind a veil of fiery dews; Knelling the spot where Gallic soil defiled Showed her sons’ valour as a frenzied child In arms of ...

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...der the modest title of Commentaries, he meant to offer the records of his Gallic and British campaigns, simply as notes, or memoranda, afterwards to ...