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Jardín du Luxembourg/ Paris, France

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The infamous lighthouse of Tevennec, located off the Pointe du Raz in Brittany, France.

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Canal barges, Languedoc Roussillon, France.

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PLACES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: Glanum (France)

GLANUM, located near St-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France, was a Greek and then Roman town which prospered due to its location on trading routes between Italy and the Rhodanus (Rhone River).

The town benefitted from a large building project in the Hellenistic period and another spree during the reign of Augustus which furnished Glanum with temples, a theatre, basilica, monumental arch, and Roman baths, amongst other amenities. The town was abandoned in the 3rd century CE but today offers the modern visitor an impressive array of Greco-Roman ruins.

Glanum was first settled by the Celts, specifically the Salyans (Salluvii), from the 7th to 6th century BCE. Indeed, the town’s name derives from Glan, a Celtic spring deity who continued to be worshipped at the site into the Roman period.

Article and photos © by Mark Cartwright on AHE

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Gaston La Touche (Gaston de La Touche) (1854-1913, France)

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Gaston La Touche was a French Post-Impressionist painter. His early style was influenced by realism, but progressively moved towards brightly-coloured and sensual idealised subjects.

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French 9th Dragoons, 1840, Thuret

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République #paris #france #igersparis #instaparis #instagramparis #republique #statue #healing #vivalaparis (at Place de la Republique)

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Château de Valmer - www.jardins-de-france.com

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Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse in the Costume of a Novice of the Order of the Holy Spirit by Louis de Boullogne II, 1693

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Lutetia, asteroid and ancient French tribe image

The asteroid Lutetia lies almost directly in the plane of the ecliptic approximately 230 million miles from the sun, on average. It was discovered in 1852 by the German-French painter, astronomer and polymath Hermann Goldschmidt, who discovered it not long after purchasing a telescope he financed by selling paintings of Galileo produced on a recent trip to Florence. Although he originally believed that he had discovered a new planet, he soon confirmed that it was indeed an asteroid and named it after the Roman name for the city that eventually became Paris: Lutetia Parisiorum, named for the Gallic tribe the Parisii who first inhabited the island later known as Île de la Cité. In July of 2010 the French spacecraft the Rosetta passed approximately 1800 miles away from Lutetia and took several hundred high resolution photographs, mostly of the north pole of the asteroid. Lutetia is a medium sized asteroid, somewhat egg shaped, 100 kilometers in diameter and 120 kilometers in diameter along its longest axis, with a fairly eccentric orbit.

In March 2011 the International Astronomical Union agreed to a naming system for Lutetia’s features, allowing them to be named for regions, cities and rivers in Roman Gaul, as in the map above: Baetica, Achaia, Etruria, Narbonensis, Noricum, Pannonia, and Raetia. Like most students of Latin, one of the first ‘real’ texts I read was Caesar’s Gallic wars, ’Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres….’, and one of the first early maps I studied was pre-Roman Gaul. It’s all coming back to me! Expect to see more Latin than Greek words in the next couple of weeks!

Image of Lutetia courtesy ESA 2011 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD /INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA. Orbit of Lutetia courtesy NASA/JPL, used with permission. Map of Caesar’s Gaul in the public domain.