While having lunch in a crêperie in Marseille I spotted this hanging on the wall – key dates in French history to remember.
From Caesar’s invasion – Gallia est omnis divisa in partes très – to the death of Henri IV all the important dates are there.
481 Clovis I – first king of France.
1095 Urban II calls the First Crusade in Clermont Ferrand.
1346 Battle of Crécy
1431 death of Joan of Arc (sold out to the Brits by the Burgundians)
Strangely – unlike in Cours de Voraces in Lyon – they haven’t added in 1998!
Thrown to (the) Lyon 