6.7. « DONNER A CAESAR » OUBLIÉ

 

LE ROI REMPLACE JÉSUS, ENSUITE DIEU  

Louis XIII (1610-1643) donated the land for a church that announced obedience to the monarchy as the key to salvation: A king hovers over the street and though a saint, wears a crown instead of a halo.

Saint-Paul Saint-Louis in the neighborhood fashionable in the early 17th century (the "Marais" near the river in the 3rd district).

 

Louis IX / Saint Louis (1226-1270)

The Versailles chapel took the link even further. Instead of being represented by light, God is shown as a patriarch, like the king. His image is directly over the royal pew.

Saint Ignatius, founder of the Jesuit order, is received in Heaven, by Andrea Pozzo, 1691-94 / Video

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 Royal Chapel of Versailles by Antoine Coypel, 1689 / zoom

"The royal throne is not the throne of a man, but of God himself." 

-- Bossuet, a famous preacher of the time

Expanding economies bring strengthened authorities to control them, like Gnapon's chieftaincy in Djimini and the monarchs of Dahomey. The Great Spirit itself changes, as ancestors replace pythons and French kings make God in their image.

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"One king, one faith" and prohibiting Protestantism make the exceptionally kingdom more centralized still. That intensification is at the origin of France regulating business more than other capitalist countries do.  

Claude Abron

The Grande Arche de la Défense 

hovers over the multinationals' towers that surround it.

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A faith specific to France