Excerpt from Bordeaux, Ses Environs Et Ses Vins: Classés par Ordre de MériteBordeaux, chef - lieu de la Gironde la plus belle ville de France après Paris et la plus impor tante après Lyon, existait sous le nom de Burdigala dès le commencement de l'empire romain. Elle de vint sous Auguste, la métropole de l'aquitaine, qui s'étendait des rives de la Loire jusqu'aux Pyrénées.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.