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The Legend of Julius Caesar
For two millennium Julius Caesar's gallic walls, which I've shown, many of you were told by school masters is an absolute model of military history. And it's only in the last 20 years, 2000 years later, that Scolas all over the world have suddenly woken up to the fact that Julius Caesar might have made a lot of it up. Yet even at the time, this rather remarkable figure, Guy Ersa Sinius, Polio, who was a Caesar supporter, said actually Caesar's memoirs were put together somewhat carelessly and without strict regard for truth. To lie like a bulletin became a catchphrase in France.
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