Gallic wealth aroused the greed of Rome, whose armies circulated without difficulty on a well-established road network. In 52 BC, Julius Caesar waged a war to impose his power in Rome and his neighbors. Don’t think it’s ancient history, the lusts of authoritarian power unfortunately continue in eastern Europe with the cohorts of fear and suffering.
The new power created a new capital at Jublains, from which radiating tracks were stabled, the quality of which favored speed and rolling. I was able to excavate six of these roads during the installation of a gas pipeline and I was impressed by the quality of the roads. The roads are stabilized, curved to ward off water towards ditches, retreaded, sanded, groomed for the comfort of the pedestrian, the rider and the rolling. Boundaries are placed in the current communes of Genest, Châtllon-sur-Colmont, Jublains, Mayenne) to the glory of Rome and its emperors.
Secondary roads are created and the old scattered farms tend (but not all) to disappear in favor of large aristocratic estates sometimes retaining fossilized rectilinear traces of their limits, sometimes fossilized and resumed with the construction of the bocage. In the latest topo-guide to the Mayenne of hollow paths, you can find traces of these paths under your feet in our marked Mayenne circuits.