Clovis

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Clovis as the point where the history of France begins "in principle"1, while pointing out that at that time people spoke of the Franks, not of France2. He returns several times to his conversion, tied to a battle he had to win and to his marriage to Clotilde, and to his baptism by Remi. He sees in it the moment when the barbarian stops being a nomad and becomes the founder of a kingdom34. He reads the episode of the Soissons vase in two ways. In 2018, the warrior's shattered skull puts an end to Frankish egalitarianism and inaugurates the monarchy5. From 2023 on, the episode mainly illustrates the "freedom of the Franks": that of the victorious warrior, the throat-cutter who gives the vanquished the choice between death and slavery. He contrasts this freedom with that of the social contract67. He also notes, in connection with Nerval, that Clovis's Franks first settled in the Pays de France8.

1. 1L'Histoire est elle une matière ?9 Mar 2017 · 2:46
2. 2L'Histoire est elle une matière ?9 Mar 2017 · 54:15
3. 3#3.6 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 49:16
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023 · 1:06:34
5. 5#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:14:54
6. 6Guerre, néo-fascisme : le libéralisme-libertaire3 Mar 2023 · 1:11:23
7. 7Leur "Europe", c'est la guerre.28 Feb 2026 · 9:53
8. 8#4.5 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Feb 2018 · 18:02

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