BIBRACTE  , an

ancient Gaulish town, the modern Mont Beuvray, near . Autun in France . Here, on a hilltop 2500 ft. above sea-level, excavation has revealed a vast area of 330 acres, girt with a stone and wood rampart 3 M. long, and containing the remains of dwelling-houses, a temple of Bibractis, and the workshops of iron and bronze workers and enamellers . It was the capital of the Aedui in the time of Julius Caesar . Later on Augustus removed the inhabitants to his new town Augustodfinum (Autun), to destroy the free native traditions . Another far more obscure town in Gaul, near Reims, also bore the name . See Eulliot, Fouilles de Beuvray; Dechelette, Oppidum de Bibracte; also references 5.v . AEDU1 .