The GUI of oak was with the eyes of Gallic marvellous and crowned object; the priests chaired the gathering of the GUI, as a religious ceremony; a druid vêtu of white went up on the tree, cut the GUI with a gold bill hook, and threw it in a white linen so that it was not profaned by the contact of the ground.

Marseilles, Nice, Agde and other cities of the Mediterranean were founded there is nearly twenty-five centuries by of Phocéens, Greeks of minor Asia, and a part of the French of these cities have as ancestors of the Greeks.

The foundation of Marseilles is surrounded of gracious legends.

Phocéens had just unloaded and sought a ground to be established: their young Eugene chief having been allowed with the table of the king of the country, the girl of the king chooses it for her husband while offering to him to drink: the young foreigner became the son-in-law of the king, and based the town of Massalie on the territory which was given to him.

This engraving represents the legend and not the historical truth, which escapes to us: at the bottom of a forest of oaks, of old druids out of white dress achieve the sacrifice in front of the assembled warriors: one sees all with the entour large stones called dolmens and menhirs, which are venerated like furnace bridges.

This legend does not rest on any base; we know anything neither the age nor of the costume of the druids, and it is certain that the dolmens and the menhirs are much older than Druidisme.

The Gallic ones liked the adventures, and their audacity often involved them with far.

At the fourth century before J.-C., one their bands pushed to the heart of Italy, beat the Roman army in Allia, entered Rome, besieged the fortress of Capitole, and forced the Romans to capitulate.

Overcome had to pay 1000 pounds of gold (326 kilog.), and one reports that the Gallic chief, to have good measurement, threw in the balance its heavy sword with its cross-belt, and required the gold weight of them, while exclaiming: "Misfortune with overcome".