Conférence du 23 octobre 2015 : Louis XI, un roi soldat

Lecture Series: Knights & Bombards, from Agincourt to Marignano, 1415-1515: Kings, Knights, and Cannons. In conjunction with the exhibition "Knights and Bombards: From Agincourt to Marignano, 1415-1515," the Army Museum and the University of Paris's Continuing Education program presented a series of lectures on the transformations of warfare at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance. Through cultural representations, royal figures, and technological (r)evolutions, the aim was to better understand the complex interplay of ancient elements, inherited from the medieval past, and a significant movement of modernization. October 23, 2015, at 1:15 p.m. Louis XI, a Soldier King by Amable Sablon du Corail, Chief Curator of Heritage, Head of the Department of the Middle Ages and the Ancien Régime at the National Archives. Louis XI is one of the most famous French kings of the late Middle Ages. The negative legend, widely disseminated through both fictionalized biographies and historical novels, has long obscured the true nature of the sovereign, his beliefs, and his methods. While Louis XI is often imagined as the epitome of the cautious diplomat, this lecture aims to demonstrate that it is possible to recognize in him a soldier-king, forged in the harsh school of the Hundred Years' War.