See also: Tolbiac

Tolbiac is a city of old the Gaulle, today called Zülpich, close to Cologne. One calls victory of Tolbiac , the victory carried by Clovis Ier, king of the Francs, over the Alamans, a nongiven point of the middle price of the the Rhine. The historians traditionally placed it into 496, but of the recent revisions place the battle of Tolbiac into 506

Into thanks for this victory, Clovis, which had married a Christian catholic name of Clotilde, converts with the Foi of Nicée with its soldiers. It was the bishop of Rheims Remi which baptized Clovis.

The name of Tolbiac was allotted to an important street XIII {{E}} district of Paris and, by extension, to the surrounding districts or buildings: “FAC (ulté) of Tolbiac” (which makes in fact part of the Université of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne), Tolbiac sector of the zone Paris Left bank, future Bercy-Tolbiac footbridge.