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Polychrome carved wooden statue representing Saint Louis* as King of France with royal attributes: he wears a large crown and his blue mantle decorated with fleur-de-lis; he holds his scepter in his left hand and presents Christ's crown of thorns in his right hand. Vintage late 18th-early 19th centuries.
This statue is in good general condition. It is of exceptional quality. The polychromy is still very vivid.
Please note: some accidents and losses on the decorations (missing a fleur-de-lis on the crown) and the polychromy, some cracks, wear and tear, look carefully at the photos.
is a Capetian king of France born April 25, 1214 in Poissy and died August 25, 1270 in Carthage, near Tunis. He reigned for more than 43 years, from 1226 until his death. Considered a saint during his lifetime, he was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1297. The ninth king of France from the direct Capetian dynasty, he was the fourth or fifth child and second known son of King Louis VIII, known as “Louis the Lion”, and Queen Blanche of Castile, from whom he received a very strict and very pious education throughout his childhood.
He leads a reign inspired by the values of Christianity which helps to found the idea that spiritual and political powers can be embodied by a single man. It attenuates the excesses of feudalism in favor of the notion of the common good and develops royal justice, where the sovereign appears as “the supreme justice”. In this way, he gradually moved France from a feudal monarchy to a modern monarchy, no longer based only on the personal relationships of the king with his vassals, but on those of the king as head of state with his " topics ".
Louis is also very attached to relics: in 1239, he bought from the Venetians those of the Passion (crown of thorns, nail of Christ on the cross), which the latter had received as a pledge from Baldwin II; in order to give them a setting worthy of them, he had the Sainte-Chapelle built between 1241 and 1248, in Paris.
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