Via Agrippa de l'Océan

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The Roman Way of Agrippa of the Ocean is one of the main arteries of the Roman road network, linking the great cities of Gaul with each other, one of the four main Roman roads, built from the government of Agrippa at the end of the first century BC. She left Lugdunum and separated at Samarobriva on her way to Brittany and the North Sea, with many other branches. Named the way of the Ocean because it led to the Channel (called Oceanus Britannicus by the Romans), leading to Gesoriacum (Boulogne-sur-Mer).

At the start of the Roman city, it is heading west from the top of the hill of Fourvière, using the artery of Barthélemy Buyer Avenue nowadays, and then to the north, via the Valmy district, where an important section was exhumed in 1999 and 2000. From the Roman conquest of Gaul, the Tin Route took its course. Often, it is locally referred to as Brunehaut Chaussée.