The Marian Pilgrimages in Modern France
Résumé
« The kingdom of France belongs to the domain of Jesus’s mother », wrote the Dominican Laudun in 1669. Nevertheless, the situation of this time does not take into account the dynamics of the history which was quite different. It is only the piety of the end of the Middle Ages that the Reformation transforms Marie into a “captain” of an anti-Protestant crusade all through the Baroque period. From the beginning of Louis XIV’s reign in 1661, when the danger of Protestantism diminishes, the worship to Marie also decreases, still alive in hearts, but stops being so present in the public space.