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Until we find an inscription saying "Id est Lutetia" (This is Lutetia), we will never be able to prove definitively that it lay in Nanterre," Bulard said.

Egads, they even say that about other things.
"Until we find stuff labeled ______(fill in the blank) we will never be sure!"

What if they plot the course of the local rivers at the time of Ceasar's conquest?
What do they find then?
The article says that Nanterre was on a defensible peninsula with a river loop around it.
5 posted on 02/27/2004 12:46:39 PM PST by Darksheare (Fortune for today: The Goldfish have it out to do you in.)
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Until we find an inscription saying "Id est Lutetia" (This is Lutetia), we will never be able to prove definitively that it lay in Nanterre," Bulard said.

How about an inscription saying "We surrender"?

7 posted on 02/27/2004 1:13:02 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina ("Shut up," he explained.)
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