Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Pokey78
Goudineau is quite right in his book debunking the Gallic myth. Interesting to see his claim that most Gauls capitulated without much of a fight as in that excellent comic book series, Asterix's village was the only one which apparently put up a fight while the rest of the villages had caved in to the Romans. Until the Romans came and brought civilization followed by Christianity, France and the British Isles mostly resembled uncivilized mosaics of people just as Africa is now. It took a few hundred years of interbreeding of the aboriginals (original purebred sons and daughters of the soil) with invaders to break the mold and Christianity to give them a soul and aspiration to civilization.
28 posted on 03/31/2002 5:35:32 PM PST by TransOxus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: TransOxus
The Romans did little "interbreeding" with the folk of the British Isles, and none with the Picts, Scot's, or Irish. Of course, these peoples were certainly influenced by Rome, primarily by Christianity (though Romans did not directly introduce it to the Celts save the native British), but your story is a bit over-dramatic.
30 posted on 03/31/2002 5:43:53 PM PST by Cleburne
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson