Camille Jullian

Born in Marseille in 1859, Camille Jullian became one of France’s leading historians of the ancient world. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and was a student of the historian Fustel de Coulanges, whose work he later helped edit and publish.

Jullian taught at the University of Bordeaux before being appointed to the Collège de France in 1905, where he held the chair of national antiquities. His work brought together literary sources, inscriptions, and archaeological evidence, and he became especially known for his research on Roman and pre-Roman Gaul.

He is best remembered for the monumental multi-volume Histoire de la Gaule, a major study of Gaul from early antiquity through the Roman period. Jullian died in 1933, but his writing remained influential for historians interested in Celtic Europe, Roman France, and the long roots of French identity.