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Gauls

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Gauls 

Celtic tribes, which in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. settled in the territory northwest of the Alps, the basins of the Rhine, the Seine, the Loire, and the upper reaches of the Danube, as well as the Po River valley—that is, the territory that the Romans named Gaul.



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He must have been anxious, though no doubt he had collected beforehand on the shores of the Gauls a store of information from the talk of traders, adventurers, fishermen, slave-dealers, pirates - all sorts of unofficial men connected with the sea in a more or less reputable way.
Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon, Archbishop and Comte of Lyon, Primate of the Gauls, was allied both to Louis XI.
The Franks, one of the number, having conquered the Gauls, established the kingdom which has taken its name from them.
 
 
 
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