After Caesar’s conquest, Gaul became a set of Roman provinces until the 5th century. Roads, cities, Latin and law reshaped society before the Frankish kingdoms.
Provinces and Lyon
Narbonensis, Aquitania, Lugdunensis, Belgica; Lyon as a major capital of the Gauls.
Romanization and Christianity
Urban life, citizenship, then the spread of Christianity from the 2nd–4th centuries.
End of the Western Empire
Germanic kingdoms and the symbolic date of 476; in the north the Franks of Childeric and Clovis rose.