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After the conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar in 58–51 bce the Romans had introduced planned cities, large public buildings, temples, and triumphal monuments, as well as the techniques of building in concrete, brick and stone masonry, and the use of columns, piers, lintels, round arches, and barrel and groin vaults. Their monuments continued to inspire builders, and methods of construction introduced in antiquity were never completely forgotten. The numerous Roman remains in France include Glanum (Saint-Rémy), Nîmes, Arles and Arausio (Orange) in the south, and further north Autun, Langres, Reims, and Paris (baths in the Musée de Cluny). For a discussion of architectural developments in France before the medieval period, see Prehistoric Europe, §IV, 2 and Rome, ancient, §II, 2, (ii), (a). See also France, Republic of P. Lavedan: French Architecture, Pelican Hist. A. (Harmondsworth, 1956) The architecture of the early medieval period, from the reign of Clovis (...