However of Toulouse

The Or of Toulouse is an account whose historical or mythical statute is not established. This treasure would come from the hypothetical plundering of the sanctuary of Delphes, at the time of the Grande Celtic forwarding (279 av. J. - C.) part of the Celtic people of the Volques Tectosages would have then brought back it to Toulouse. At the time of the catch of Delphes, the chief of the Celts, Brennus, would have been wounded by the divine intervention of Apollo and would have died shortly after. The other part of the Celtic troops would be flees in Anatolia where it would have founded, with other Celtic people, Galatie. It is of this gold (approximately 70 tons of Or), cursed because of its source sacrilege, that in 105 av. J. - C would have seized. the Roman proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio to bring it back to Rome. During the transfer, part of the treasure disappears and Caepio is shown to have stolen it. According to the official version, the caravan would have been attacked by brigands between Toulouse and Marseilles. By bad luck, Caepio is also responsible for the defeat of Arausio Orange (105 av. J. - C.) where 80.000 Roman soldiers are killed. Rome did not support these two consecutive failures, and Caepio was expelled of the Senate by the Norbanus powerful orator; his Roman citizenship is withdrawn to him and it must pay a fine of 15.000 talents. He is condemned to the exile, Smyrna, in minor Asia, where he will die. Disgrace marked the spirits so much that one made of it a legend according to which the Gold of Toulouse carried misfortune.

Pure fabrication or historical truth, nobody knows today what became this treasure.

Bibliography:

- KRUTA, Venceslas (2000). Celts, history and dictionary. Origins with the romanisation and Christianity. Paris, Robert Laffont (coll Books), 2000.

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