Julius caesar spent nine years in france during the gallic wars. He documented his exploits in a series of essays that he sent back to the roman senate. With those writings in hand, robert guest travelled to France to retrace caesar's steps. And visited the site of one of caesar's rare moments of weakness.
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we examine the inevitable economic and political consequences. After years of reporting our correspondent concludes that the mutual disdain of a country’s northern and southern halves is a curious human universal. And a sojourn to fact-check Julius Caesar’s accounts of his triumphs in France.
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