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Fans of the Astérix comics about ancient Gaul and the Romans will enjoy the Parc Astérix theme park, near Autoroute A1 between Roissy (Charles-de-Gaulle airport) and Senlis, open April to October; Tel. 03 44 62 34 34.
The name of gallium is not only a pun on the name of its discoverer, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, but a patriotic tribute to his native country—Latin Gallia , Gaul, France.
Spain’s Arab rulers exploited this disunity to sweep north across Gaul, controlling Languedoc, Dordogne, and a large part of Provence, before being defeated at Poitiers in 732 by the army of Charles Martel.
The poet William Cowper once wrote “philologists who trace/A panting syllable through time and space,/Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark/To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's ark.”
National commemoratives include Americium, Germanium, Polonium and Francium; ancient France likewise gets a nod in Gallium (Ga), the only metal that melts in your hand, not in your chamber (unless you have a very warm room)—named both for Gaul (Latin Gallia, that place which, thanks to Julius Caesar's memoir of its subjugation by the Romans, every schoolchild used to know was divided into three parts) and, in a gesture of unusual levity, as a pun on the name of its discoverer, Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran.