Commentarii de Bello Gallico
The anonymous compiler and translator sometimes borrowed the full texts of other works, such as Sallust's "De coniuratione Catilinae" or Caesar's "Commentarii de Bello Gallico", for which the "Faits" are the first translations into French. He followed his Latin models step by step while constantly adapting the text to the civilisation of his time. 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. In his account of the civil war, he followed not Caesar's work, but Lucan's epic poem "Pharsalia". Unlike, for example, the author of the contemporary "Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César", he renders all the material in consistently styled prose.