Gabrielle d'Estrées

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Gabrielle d'Estrées through a legend that forms a triangle: Henri IV's favourite, beneath whose window Rousseau is said to play the guitar1. According to the peasant whose account he relates, she is locked in the tower. For him, she is what is at stake in this triangle and the apex toward which it points2. He makes her a symbol: the courtesan condenses wealth, the commodity and the surplus value extorted over centuries, even millennia. She thus stands for the enjoyment of power, or the instrument of that enjoyment345. He concludes that "Gabrielle belongs to us too"6. In his sessions on Nerval's *Angélique*, he connects her to the places in the story: the château of Chaalis and Senlis, where her love affair with Henri IV is said to have been sheltered78. He comes back to this motif in other sessions, on money and labour, on Mozart and on worldliness in Clouscard.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, a world that begins20 Sept 2014 · 15:16
2. 2From the debauchery of sense to the orgy of sentiment29 May 2023 · 1:58:10
3. 3What is to be done? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 13:02
4. 4#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:09:58
5. 5#13 Mozart restored2 Feb 2021 · 1:19:34
6. 6At the bistro (part 2)19 Jun 2016 · 7:12
7. 7#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)12 Nov 2017 · 52:11
8. 8#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:24:56

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.