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La spiritualité des officiers royaux au début du XVIe siècle : Antoine Robert, bourgeois de Paris et secrétaire du roi de Louis XI à François Ier

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Antoine Robert, clerk of the high judicial court in Paris during the reign of Francis 1st, was one of the oldest royal secretaries when he died in 1521, on September. He is known to have given all his personnal assets and properties to the benedictin convent of the Blancs-Manteaux in Paris. His religious behaviour can be studied through three documents relating to his will, foundation and inheritance. So Antoine Robert, rather a rich and well educated laic seems to corroborate the weight of ideas which were brought from Flanders into France by the " Frères de la vie commune " and developped during the Reformation. The biblical and ancient authors' quotations contained in his will show that his religion is first tormented, obsessed by Jesus Christ and his death but finaly reaches to the serenity of the stoicism. The description of his personnal assets, paintings and books reveals these trends. Almost all the religious paintings, hung in bedrooms and studies, regard to the Childhood and death of Jesus Christ ans show the religious observances inherited of the " devotio moderna ", made of individual spirituality and penitence. The library reveals Antoine Robert's litterary testes, their changes and waverings. New platonics philosophers of the very first part of the XVIth century represent the humanism. St Augustin, st Jerome or the " ars moriendi " are well known since the Middle ages.