05-31-2003, 10:42 AM
SALVE<br>
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As a brand new member let me first introduce myself.<br>
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My name is Jean-Luc and I am currently the Signifer of the LEG VIII AVG in France. I was introduced to this talk by Dan Peterson that I last saw 2 weeks ago in Ostia.<br>
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I am 40 years old, currently running my computer shop in Marseilles. I grew up in Nîmes (NEMAUSUS) a city that is also nicknamed the French Rome because it has so many Romans monuments. So as a child, I always felt the influence of Roman culture around me, always wondering all those magnificent monuments might have looked at the time of their splendor. None to speak of the roman amphitheater were you could hear all those cheering and noise when they had bullfight, and of course as a kid I was strictly forbidden to enter.<br>
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I moved away from that city as a teenager, but always kept that Roman influence and interest. As an adult I have travelled the world quite a bit in my early career, and finally went back to Provence partly because I was missing these old stones too much.<br>
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Then one day I made a new friend in the mountains above aquae sextiae, we started to talk roman history and I discovered that he had just finished writing a book on Caius Marius and his struggle against the Teuton, with location maps of the famous battle. We even went as a small group to clean up a bit of what his left of the monument that Marius has erected there and that was being invaded by roots and plants. we have since then formed a small group trying to find funds to restore the monument.<br>
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In order to show the people what was their past we had organized an exposition on the roman army at a local museum. It was originally to last for one week-end, but due to the success, the mayor asked us to keep it for another 2 weeks.<br>
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That was then that we were contacted by the Optio of the LEG VIII to see if we would be interested in experimental archeology. We were pretty reluctant first, and it took me almost 6 months to give it a try.<br>
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That is how I got the virus. We are about 20 in our group, but being spread all over France we are seldom more than 10 at the same time. I have to admit that we had a lot of pioneering to do as it was pretty difficult to get the equipment, so some of us spent a lot of spare time building stuffs that we would never have thought that we were capable of making.<br>
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We have done quite a lot of appearances with the guys from LEG V, also they do Augustean period and we are Flavians. We have also done other appearances with other Europeans Groups. This are the best because everybody share his techniques and experiences.We also do fight with a couple of Celtic Groups from the North of France once or twice a year, and also you always end up with a lot of browses, we love it.<br>
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I hope that I can continue to achieve what I am really interested in, that is get enough peoples interested in the early romans and republican era to form a group within our group.<br>
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That's it, I hope that this will help you to know me and our group a little bit better.<br>
<br>
I look forward to chat with you all on a lot of great topics<br>
<br>
Jean-Luc FERAUD <p></p><i></i>
<br>
As a brand new member let me first introduce myself.<br>
<br>
My name is Jean-Luc and I am currently the Signifer of the LEG VIII AVG in France. I was introduced to this talk by Dan Peterson that I last saw 2 weeks ago in Ostia.<br>
<br>
I am 40 years old, currently running my computer shop in Marseilles. I grew up in Nîmes (NEMAUSUS) a city that is also nicknamed the French Rome because it has so many Romans monuments. So as a child, I always felt the influence of Roman culture around me, always wondering all those magnificent monuments might have looked at the time of their splendor. None to speak of the roman amphitheater were you could hear all those cheering and noise when they had bullfight, and of course as a kid I was strictly forbidden to enter.<br>
<br>
I moved away from that city as a teenager, but always kept that Roman influence and interest. As an adult I have travelled the world quite a bit in my early career, and finally went back to Provence partly because I was missing these old stones too much.<br>
<br>
Then one day I made a new friend in the mountains above aquae sextiae, we started to talk roman history and I discovered that he had just finished writing a book on Caius Marius and his struggle against the Teuton, with location maps of the famous battle. We even went as a small group to clean up a bit of what his left of the monument that Marius has erected there and that was being invaded by roots and plants. we have since then formed a small group trying to find funds to restore the monument.<br>
<br>
In order to show the people what was their past we had organized an exposition on the roman army at a local museum. It was originally to last for one week-end, but due to the success, the mayor asked us to keep it for another 2 weeks.<br>
<br>
That was then that we were contacted by the Optio of the LEG VIII to see if we would be interested in experimental archeology. We were pretty reluctant first, and it took me almost 6 months to give it a try.<br>
<br>
That is how I got the virus. We are about 20 in our group, but being spread all over France we are seldom more than 10 at the same time. I have to admit that we had a lot of pioneering to do as it was pretty difficult to get the equipment, so some of us spent a lot of spare time building stuffs that we would never have thought that we were capable of making.<br>
<br>
We have done quite a lot of appearances with the guys from LEG V, also they do Augustean period and we are Flavians. We have also done other appearances with other Europeans Groups. This are the best because everybody share his techniques and experiences.We also do fight with a couple of Celtic Groups from the North of France once or twice a year, and also you always end up with a lot of browses, we love it.<br>
<br>
I hope that I can continue to achieve what I am really interested in, that is get enough peoples interested in the early romans and republican era to form a group within our group.<br>
<br>
That's it, I hope that this will help you to know me and our group a little bit better.<br>
<br>
I look forward to chat with you all on a lot of great topics<br>
<br>
Jean-Luc FERAUD <p></p><i></i>
