The 1906 caption reads: “JULIAN DECLARED EMPEROR BY HIS SOLDIERS AT PARIS.—This takes us back to the time when France or Gaul was still Roman. The young general Julian had so successfully defended Gaul against the barbarian Franks, that when the jealous Roman Emperor would have degraded him, his soldiers declared him Emperor in place of his rival. He marched off to fight for his title in Italy, leaving Gaul to its ravagers.”I n 360 AD, Julian was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers at Lutetia (present-day Paris), sparking a civil war with his father, the emperor Constantius II. However, Constan
The 1906 caption reads: “JULIAN DECLARED EMPEROR BY HIS SOLDIERS AT PARIS.—This takes us back to the time when France or Gaul was still Roman. The young general Julian had so successfully defended Gaul against the barbarian Franks, that when the jealous Roman Emperor would have degraded him, his soldiers declared him Emperor in place of his rival. He marched off to fight for his title in Italy, leaving Gaul to its ravagers.”I n 360 AD, Julian was proclaimed emperor by his soldiers at Lutetia (present-day Paris), sparking a civil war with his father, the emperor Constantius II. However, Constantius died before the two could face each other in battle, and named Julian as his successor.
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