The King killed by a pig.
Points| N° d'inventaire | 22187 |
| Format | 10.5 x 18 |
| Détails | 270 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782757873168 |
Blue is the color of France, everyone knows that. What is less well known, however, is that the choice of this color is due to a common domestic pig that, wandering in a street of Paris, caused the death of the eldest son of King Louis VI the Fat in 1131. This accidental death, caused by an unclean animal, appeared to contemporaries as an infamous stain cast on the monarchy and the kingdom. To erase it, the latter was placed under the protection of the Virgin, from whom two of her iconographic attributes were borrowed to create the first royal coat of arms: the lily and the azure, symbols of purity. Little by little, this Marian blue became the color of France. It still is today.
Blue is the color of France, everyone knows that. What is less well known, however, is that the choice of this color is due to a common domestic pig that, wandering in a street of Paris, caused the death of the eldest son of King Louis VI the Fat in 1131. This accidental death, caused by an unclean animal, appeared to contemporaries as an infamous stain cast on the monarchy and the kingdom. To erase it, the latter was placed under the protection of the Virgin, from whom two of her iconographic attributes were borrowed to create the first royal coat of arms: the lily and the azure, symbols of purity. Little by little, this Marian blue became the color of France. It still is today.