Antiquity path: Bronze Age · Celts · Roman Gaul · Franks → · Clovis
Antiquity on French territory runs from the Celtic Iron Age to the end of the Western Roman Empire (476). It links the Bronze Age to the Frankish kingdom of Clovis.
Celts and Gauls
Hallstatt and La Tène cultures, oppida, contact with Greek Massalia, then Caesar’s Gallic Wars and Alesia (52 BCE). See The Celts.
Roman Gaul
Provinces, roads, cities (Lyon), Romanization and Christianisation until the 5th-century upheavals. See Roman Gaul.