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Louis VI le Gros

by Eric Bournazel

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à Françoise BOURNEZ, Jacques PHYTHILIS, Jean-Pierre POLY dont l’amicale vigilance nous a inlassablement accompagné tout au long de la rédaction de cet ouvrage ;
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« Où est le plus ancien capitaine ? demanda-t-il à un sergent. Le sergent haussa les épaules d’une manière très expressive. – Et le plus ancien lieutenant ? – Voici Monsieur qui est arrivé d’hier, dit le sergent d’un ton tout à fait calme. Le colonel sourit amèrement : – Allons Monsieur, me dit-il, vous commandez en chef ; faites promptement fortifier la gorge de la redoute avec ces chariots, car l’ennemi est en force ; mais le général C*** va vous faire soutenir. – Colonel, lui dis-je, vous êtes grièvement blessé ? – Foutre, mon cher, mais la redoute est prise ! » (Mérimée, L'Enlèvement de la redoute, 1829.) [...]
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Au tri sélectif et modulable de l’Histoire, que reste-t-il aujourd’hui du roi Louis VI, fils de Philippe Ier et père de Louis VII, qui régna de 1108 à 1137 ? L'image du « roi justicier et batailleur » que voulut donner de lui son biographe familier, l’abbé de Saint-Denis Suger, assortie de ce qualificatif de « Gros » qui le distingue entre tous les Louis dans la galerie naïïve de portraits des rois de France établie pour scander les étapes de la constitution de la nation française et souligner les figures royales qui y furent associées. [...]
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