Jean-Louis Nogaret de la Valette, duc d'Epernon (1554-1642) : une vie politique
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Abstract EN:
Le premier duc d'epernon n'est associe a aucune grande victoire, projet ou oeuvre durable. Neanmoins il est aux yeux de ses contemporains, un personnage considerable. Paradoxalement, dans cette vie ou rien n'est politique, tout est politique. Homme de pouvoir, disposant d'une impressionnante clientele liee a la charge de colonel general de l'infanterie; il ne sait que faire du pouvoir, faute d'une culture capable de lui permettre de resoudre des aspirations contradictoires. Aussi brillante qu'ambigue sa reussite est representative d'un certain stade d'evolution du pouvoir royal en france entre la fin du xvies. Et le premier xviies.
Abstract FR:
The first duke of epernon is neither connected to ouny lasting achievement nor striking victory. He is but a very important person to his contemporaries. Strangely enough, this a political life is au politics. The duke is powerful mostly because of his positions as colonel genral of french infantry that provides him with a large and impressive clientele. But he doesn't know how to deal with power. He misses a culture to clear contradictory y earnings. His success is outstanding and mixedup as well. It exemplifies how royal power is evolving in late xvith and early xviith france.