The middle of the 15th century is a dark period in French history textbooks.
On our soil, a period of war, of anarchy.
Flayers and desolation.
The comet Joan of Arc being an exception, before the stake in 1431... At the Cluny Museum, where the arts between 1420 and 1460 are examined, nothing like it!
Under the general supervision of Séverine Lepape, the director of the place, Mathieu Deldicque, his counterpart at the Condé Museum at the Château de Chantilly, Maxence Hermant, in charge of manuscripts at the National Library of France, and Sophie Lagabrielle, curator of paintings, stained glass and arts graphics within this National Museum of the Middle Ages, restore the splendor of these decades.
Especially the last two.
Delivering in passing a more flattering image than that of the spineless king, this Charles VII who would have been without much personality compared to the Maid, or even to a Jean sans Peur or a Jacques Cœur.
Certainly the introductory part of the route reminds with maps to what extent the…
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