The universal biography by Feller, augmented by Jerome, Volume 9 page
453 of the duodecimo edition, expresses itself in these terms on the present work:
Pelloutier (Simon), pastor of the French Church of Berlin, was born in
Leipzig in 1694 to a family originally from Lyon. His history of the Celts, and
particularly of the Gauls and the Germans, from fabulous times until
the taking of Rome by the Gauls, has done honor to his erudition. The best
edition of this work, full of research, is the one that Mr. de Chiniac gave
in Paris in 1770 in 8 volumes in duodecimo and 2 volumes in quarto. The memoirs with which Pelloutier
enriched those of the Berlin Academy are one of the principal ornaments of the
collections of that learned Society. Death took him away in 1757 at 63 years of age.

HISTORY OF THE CELTS,

AND PARTICULARLY OF THE GAULS AND THE GERMANS,

From Fabulous Times, until the Taking of Rome by the Gauls,

By SIMON PELLOUTIER, Pastor of the French Church of Berlin, Member and Librarian of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles-Lettres of Prussia.

NEW EDITION,

Revised, corrected, and augmented by a fourth posthumous Book by the Author,

DEDICATED

TO THE LORD DAUPHIN.

The Dauphin was the title given to the heir apparent to the French throne.

By MR. DE CHINIAC, Advocate in Parliament, and of the Royal Academy of Belles-Lettres of Montauban.

Seek out your ancient Mother. original: "Antiquam exquirite Matrem." Virgil, Aeneid, Book 2, line 96.

VOLUME ONE.

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IN PARIS,

From the Printing House of QUILLAU, rue du Fouarre.

1771.

With Approbation and Privilege of the King.