Special envoy to Narbonne
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
(if you want peace, prepare for war).
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If the Pax Romana lasted two centuries, it is partly because the cities of the Empire were prepared to face the risks linked to external attacks or possible resurgences of civil war.
We find, almost everywhere in the Roman world, walls which surrounded ancient cities.
This is particularly the case in Autun, Orange, Lyon and even Le Mans.
Narbonne, although the capital of one of the four provinces of Roman Gaul, Narbonnaise, which extended from the South of Toulouse to the Alps (up to Vienna and Geneva), was an exception.
To the point that some historians wanted to see it as a sort of open city, so sure of its strength that it did not need to be protected.
But a recent discovery undermines this hypothesis.
As part of a preventive excavation ahead of the construction of a residence for the elderly, archaeologists…
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