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100 1 0 _aDufournet, Jean
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245 0 0 _aAu cœur des Mémoires de Commyne : l'affaire Saint-Pol, un cas exemplaire
260 _c2007.
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520 _aAt the core of Commynes’ Mémoires: the Saint-Pol affair, an exemplary case. The Saint-Pol affair stands at the very core of Commynes’ Mémoires, not only in Books III and IV, but in the entire work, through which it runs like a thread. Like the moralist he was, Commynes drew several essential lessons from this episode. But he was even more interested in political errors. Saint-Pol was a war-monger who was neither able nor willing to choose his side; he wanted to get the better of his collaborators who were his superiors; he brought the hatred of princes and their advisers on his head. Carried away by pride, he gave in to cruelty, and was thus rewarded by God’s wrath: God himself, and not Fortuna, was responsible for the Constable’s fall. In contrast to Saint-Pol, the Sire de Lescun and Commynes himself provide two counter-examples of virtuous conduct.
690 _adisloyalty
690 _adivine retribution
690 _ahatred
690 _ahuman weakness
690 _adouble game
786 0 _nLe Moyen Age | CXII | 3 | 2007-01-15 | p. 477-494 | 0027-2841
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2006-3-page-477?lang=fr&redirect-ssocas=7080
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