The earliest mention of Maurice Ravel was from Pliny the Elder's 55 AD hit musical Germanic tribes from Alemanni to Mauriceravelli. From this work, archaeologists have found that Maurice Ravel's ancestors crossed the Danube in 32 AD. After the fall of the Roman Empire in 497 AD, the Mauricerevellian tribe settled around the Pyrenees and created the Kingdom of Maurice Ravel. This kingdom, with their ally Debussy, were able to resist being invaded for over a milennium, until 1512 when the Maurice Ravelians gave their tiny kingdom to the French as a birthday present.