Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourvière
Bronze Roman speech tablet and hillside museum built into the ruins of a Roman theatre and odeon.
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This guide to the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon-Fourviere tells the story of Claudius, born in Lugdunum in 10 BC and mocked across Rome for his stammer, his limp and his provincial birth, who rose to become emperor almost by accident. It follows him to the year 48, when as censor he stood before a skeptical Senate to argue that Gauls from his own hometown deserved a seat among Rome's elite. Along the way it traces how his actual speech, cast in bronze, vanished for centuries before turning up by chance in 1528 within the walls of the very city he had defended.
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