Title : History of Aquitaine - Michel Suffran - book
Summary :
The history of Aquitaine is a fresco, but a fresco whose statues are alive. A tapestry, but one stirred by a furious wind. From the first moment when a hunter, some 35,000 years BC, pressed the seal of his ochre-coated hand against the wall of a Périgord cave, begins this very long epic of a region shaped by man over the centuries.
For Aquitaine is not a geographical inevitability, but a permanent conquest. An elective zone of exchange between the highlands and the ocean, scarred by the enormous wound of the Garonne estuary, Aquitaine owed its sheer will to becoming a country with shifting boundaries, but with an unshakeable specificity.
An outpost of Romanity in Gaul, a Merovingian kingdom, then a Carolingian kingdom, a duchy, an English possession, and finally a French province, ravaged by invasions, ploughed by migrations, torn apart by religious conflicts, Aquitaine has remained faithful to its destiny and lost neither its identity nor its soul in all these avatars. And it is she who, in the end, conquered her conquerors. Astonishing figures have come to symbolize it and mark its brilliant or secret history: Queen Eleanor, the Black Prince, Archbishop Pey-Berland, Montaigne, the Dukes of Epernon, the great Intendants of the 18th century, Montesquieu, have served and exalted its genius. But the history of Aquitaine is also, and above all, one of collective awareness: popular movements such as the Commune of Guyenne in the 16th century, the Ormée in the 17th century, and the federalism of the Girondins during the Revolution, powerfully affirmed a personality that made this rebellious land an astonishing mirror of human adventure.
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EAN : 9782702115992
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