PREFACE

In making this book available to the few people who might find interest in the subject it treats, I feel a great deal of embarrassment. The cause of this is a contradiction I have encountered, which, in my eyes, constitutes an insoluble problem. It is as follows:

The conclusion I reach is that the conquest of GaulA historical region of Western Europe during the Iron Age and Roman era, primarily encompassing modern-day France and Belgium. by the Romans bestowed upon our country the benefit of a civilization infinitely superior to Celtic civilizationThe culture and social structures of the various tribes inhabiting Gaul prior to the Roman conquest.. I will not speak of arts and literature; of Greek sculptureThe classical style of statues and reliefs characterized by idealized realism and specific mathematical proportions., for example, introduced into a region of Europe where there was no notion of the rules