Gregory of Tours
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Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history." He was a prelate in the Merovingian kingdom, encompassing Gaul's historic region.
St. Gregory of Tours, 19th century statue by Jean Marcellin, in the Louvre in Paris, France
Realms of Merovingian Gaul at the death of Clovis (511 AD).
Frontispiece of Historia Francorum.
St Gregory and King Chilperic I, from the Grandes Chroniques de France de Charles V, 14th-century illumination.
Gallo-Roman culture
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Gallo-Roman culture was a consequence of the Romanization of Gauls under the rule of the Roman Empire. It was characterized by the Gaulish adoption or adaptation of Roman culture, language, morals and way of life in a uniquely Gaulish context. The well-studied meld of cultures in Gaul gives historians a model against which to compare and contrast parallel developments of Romanization in other less-studied Roman provinces.
Wall fragment with fresco of a Gallo-Roman man, from Evreux, 250–275 AD
Gallo-Roman figures found in Ingelheim am Rhein
Northern Gaul "sou", 440–450, 4240mg. Hotel de la Monnaie.
A Gallic warrior dressed in Roman lorica hamata (chainmail) with a cloak over it. Wearing a torc around his neck, he also wields a Celtic-style shield although the proportions of the body and the overall realism are more in line with Classical and Roman art than with the Celtic depictions of soldiers.