This study brings together two subjects that are enjoying renewed interest among researchers of the early modern era: aristocracy and monarchy. It examines the common idealistic chivalric heroic foundations of king and nobleman, as scholars of history have always preferred to view the knight among emperors and kings, beset by conflicted orientations to the past and to modernization, as the last knight.

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Martin Wrede, Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble