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La Royauté Idéale - 1 - UNIVERSITE DE ROSKILDE Année 1997-2001 Ph. D INSTITUT d'ETUDES CULTURELLE et LINGUISTIQUES Présenté et soutenu par Terrasson de Fougères Vincent TITRE La Royauté Idéale. Images des rois Charles VIII et Louis XII à travers le spectacle des entrées royales et les guerres d'Italie (1484-1515) Directeur de recherche : Professeur Michel Olsen JURY M. Lektor Leif Søndergaard, Syddansk Universitet, Président M. Professeur Denis Crouzet, Université Paris IV M. Ekstern Lektor Stephen Turk Christensen, Roskilde Universitet - 2 - Sommaire RESUME.............................................................................................................................................................................5 1. DET IDEALE KONGEDØMME (1484-1515)........................................................................................................................5 2. LA ROYAUTE IDEALE (1484-1515)..................................................................................................................................12 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................................. 20 CHAPITRE I : CHARLES VIII ET LA ROYAUTE SACREE.............................. 28 A. NOVUS DAVID...................................................................................................................................................................34 a. Les états généraux (1484)........................................................................................................................................ 34 1. Une naissance miraculeuse.....................................................................................................................................34 2. Second Salomon et le retour de l’âge d’or............................................................................................................38 3. Le corps politique du royaume...............................................................................................................................41 4. Les origines davidiques et troyennes...................................................................................................................44 b. Les christi..................................................................................................................................................................... 57 1. David contre Goliath (Paris 1484)...........................................................................................................................57 2. L’arbre de Jessé. .......................................................................................................................................................59 3. L’adventus de Charles VIII-David dans Troyes-Jérusalem. ..............................................................................64 4. Onction de Salomon (Rouen 1485) ........................................................................................................................66 5. Anne de Bretagne et le Jugement de Salomon (Paris 1491)...............................................................................70 6. La prière de Salomon................................................................................................................................................75 B. LE DEVOIR DE JUSTICE ET DE PAIX. .............................................................................................................................77 a. La place de la justice. ................................................................................................................................................ 77 b. L’espoir de paix .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 C. LA VOCATION MESSIANIQUE ET IMPERIALE...............................................................................................................88 b. Le nouveau Constantin............................................................................................................................................. 88 b. Charles VIII : image de dieu sur terre..................................................................................................................... 95 d. Charles-Orland : l’astre unique de France........................................................................................................... 99 D. HERCULE AU JARDIN DES HESPERIDES. .....................................................................................................................101 a. L’entrée dans Lyon (1490) : des inconnues ........................................................................................................101 b. Un nouvel Hercule....................................................................................................................................................108 CHAPITRE II. LOUIS XII : DU BON PASTEUR A PHEBUS. ..........................117 A. L’ENTREE DE LOUIS XII DANS PARIS 1498 : CONTINUITE ET CHANGEMENT. ....................................................117 a. Un aïeul sur le trône...............................................................................................................................................120 b. Le bon pasteur...........................................................................................................................................................125 c. Des cerfs-volants et des porcs-épics. .....................................................................................................................132 d. La romanisation de l’image impériale. ................................................................................................................139 B. DU ROI SANS FILS AU PERE DU PEUPLE......................................................................................................................148 a. Le roi sans fils............................................................................................................................................................148 b. Le Pétrarque de Louis XII. ......................................................................................................................................151 c. Les états de Tours......................................................................................................................................................153 d. Les Loüenges de Louis XII.......................................................................................................................................158 1. Un panégyrique à l’antique...................................................................................................................................158 2. François de Valois : le choix de la raison.............................................................................................................162 C. DE NEPTUNE (1499) A APOLLON (1508). ...................................................................................................................164 a. Le char de Neptune. .................................................................................................................................................164 b. De Jean Perréal à Michel Colombe.......................................................................................................................166 c. Le vainqueur des Génois. ........................................................................................................................................171 d. L’entrée dans Rouen ................................................................................................................................................177 - 3 - 1. L’échafaud d’Apollon............................................................................................................................................178 2. Le roi source de justice..........................................................................................................................................182 D. LE RETOUR DE LA PAIX EN 1514.................................................................................................................................184 a. « Cor regis in manu domini... »..............................................................................................................................184 1. L’Anabase (BN, ms. fr. 702)..................................................................................................................................184 2. Dieu incline le cœur du roi à l’amour....................................................................................................................190 b. Le mariage du lis et de la rose ...............................................................................................................................194 1. Lis marial et lis de France ......................................................................................................................................194 2. L’échafaud du ponceau.........................................................................................................................................197 3. L’échafaud des Saints Innocents.........................................................................................................................198 c.Louis XII, sol justiciae, de l’échafaud
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