Faits des Romains

[4] It is the first biography wholly dedicated to the Roman leader in the vernacular;[5] the historical text also uses literary techniques borrowed from the romance or the chanson de geste.

In the case of the Commentarii de Bello Gallico, like other medieval writers he incorrectly attributes it not to Caesar himself but to a grammarian, Julius Celsus Constantinus.

Unlike, for example, the author of the contemporary Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César, he renders all the material in consistently styled prose.

[9] Notably, around 1470, Jean Fouquet painted the miniatures of a now dismembered manuscript, of which five sheets are currently held in the Louvre.

The author portrays Caesar in more or less medieval terms,[12] and focuses on the threat to liberty represented by his power, and on the fight of the Gauls under Vercingetorix for liberty from the Romans; he links the two by relating Caesar's fall to his conquest of Gaul; the text can thus be seen as an allegory of contemporary issues of the aristocratic struggle against the power of the crown.