Gotama

Dunlop, Hist. of Prose Fiction, I. 355. Gaul, Cisalpine. [L. Gallia Cisalpina (or Ci terior).] In ancient history, that part of Gaul lying on this side the Alps (that is, from Rome, on the southern side of the Alps). It extended from the Alps southward and eastward. A Roman colony was founded at Sena Gallica 282 B. C. Part of the country was reduced between the first and second Punic wars, Milan and Como being captured, and the conquest was completed 201-191 B. c. It was made a Roman province, and was incorporated with Italy 43 B. c. Gaul, Cispadane. [L. Gallia Cispadana .] In ancient geography, the part of Cisalpine Gaul this side (south) of the Po. Gaul, Transalpine. [L. Gallia Trans alp in a.] In ancient geography, that part of Gaul which lay beyond the Alps (that is, north and north- west of the Alps from Rome). It comprised in the Roman period Narbonensis, A quit an i a, Lugdunensis, and Belgica. Its ancient inhabitants were Gauls, Iberians, and Germans. Many remains of older inhabitants have been discovered, especially in the center of Gaul (Au- vergne, etc.). The Gallic antiquities are especially numer- ous in the north (Britt any). Some Greek colonies were planted in early times in the south (see Marseilles ). The Roman settlements were made first in the southeast, in the end of the 2d century B. C. (see Provence and Narbo- nensis). Gaul was thoroughly conquered by Julius Cæsar August us divided it into four provinces. Christianity was introduced in the 2d century. A division of the diocese of Gaul into 17 provinces was made in the 4th century. It was invaded by the Suevi, Alans, Vandals, West Goths, Burgundians, and Franks in the 5th century. See further under France . 58-51 в. с. Transalpine Gaul, as a geographical division, has well marked boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Alps, the Rhine, the Ocean, and the Pyrenees. But this geographical division has never answered to any divisions of blood (Ptolemy) Γαύτοι, AS. Geátas, ON. Gautar.] A tribe in the southern part of the Scand in avian peninsula, nearly coincident with the present Swedish province Gothland (Swedish Götaland), where they are mentioned by Ptol emy. They are the Geátas of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf, and are not to be confounded with the Goths. They ultimately formed a constituent part of the Swedes. Gautier (gō-tyā'), Marguerite. The principal character in Dumas's "La dame aux camélias." Gautier, Théophile. Born at Tarbes, Aug. 31, 1811: died at Neuilly, Oct. 22, 1872. A French poet, critic, and novelist. He graduated from the Lycée Charlemagne in Paris, studied painting for a while, and then entered into the romantic movement in literature. His first book, "Poésies" (1830), was followed by "Albert us" (1833), "Jeune France" (1833), "Mademoiselle de Maupin" (1835). From 1837 to 1845 he was art and dramatic critic for "La Pre e." A series of twelve papers, "Exhumations littéraires," appeared in "La France Littéraire" (1834 and 1835), and in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" (1844): they were published in book form as "Les grotesques" (1844). This work and the "Rapport sur les progrès de la poésie française depuis 1830," published in "L'His to ire du rom antis me" (1854), show Gautier at his best as a critic. Two masterpieces in literary criticism are his papers on Lamartine and Charles Baudelaire. In 1845 he went over to the editorial staff of the "Moniteur Universel," later "Journal Officiel," and was identified with that sheet until his death. As a result of his travels in Spain (1840), Belgium and Holland, Algeria (1845), Italy (1850), Constantinople and Athens (1852), and Ru ia (1858), he wrote his "Voyage en Espagne" (1843), "Zigzags" (1845), "Italia" (1852), "Constantinople" (1854), "L'Orient," "Trésors d'art de la Ru ie ancienne et moderne" (1860-63), "Loin de Paris" (1864), "Quand on voyage" (1865), and "Voyage en Ru ie" (1866). He found also in and language. Gaul in Cæsar's day, that is, Gaul beyond climes materials for such novels as "Mil it on a" (1847), "Arria the Roman province, formed three divisions-Aquitaine to the south-west, Celtic Gaul in the middle, and Belgic Gaul to the north-east. Aquitaine, stretching to the Garonne-the name was under August us extended to the Loire -- was Iberian, akin to the people on the other side of the Pyrenees: a trace of its old speech remains in the small Basque district north of the Pyrenees. Celtic Gaul, from the Loire to the Seine and Marne, was the most truly Celtic land, and it was in this part of Gaul that the modern French nation took its rise. In the third division, Belgic Gaul, the tribes to the east, nearer to the Rhine, were some of them purely German, and others had been to a great extent brought under German influences or mixed with German elements. There was, in fact, no unity in Gaul beyond that which the Romans brought with them.