It was a rude, mud-built town in the time of the Britons, who squatted there, until the Roman legions evicted them; and replaced their clay-baked walls by mighty fortifications, the trace of which Time has not yet succeeded in sweeping away, so well those old-world masons knew how to build.
Bâtie grossierement de torchis a l’époque des Bretons qui l’occupaient, elle vit les Romains, qui leur succéderent, la doter de puissantes fortifications dont les siecles n’ont pas réussi a effacer la trace, car les entrepreneurs de l’époque étaient encore des gens honnetes.