This work, published in 1901 by Hachette, is by Camille Jullian, then professor at the University of Bordeaux. This study traces the history of the Arverni tribes and the fate of their last king, Vercingetorix, leader of the uprising against Roman occupation in 54 BC.
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Four years later, he was elected to the Collège de France, to the chair of National Antiquities, created especially for him. More than a hundred years on, the work has not aged, even if new knowledge — particularly in archaeology — has somewhat modified the perception one can have of Vercingetorix.
This is how Christian Goudineau, his distant successor at the Collège de France, describes Camille Jullian's work: "His Vercingétorix was a dazzling book, though methodically organised, from which the reader came away with the impression that it had been written at a single sitting, in a controlled but contagious enthusiasm, all the erudition flowing effortlessly (and without references) through each of its sentences."
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