Gabrielle d'Estrées

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Gabrielle d'Estrées through a legend that forms a triangle: Henri IV's favourite, beneath whose window Rousseau is said to play the guitar12. According to the peasant whose account he relates, she is locked in the tower3. For him, she is what is at stake in this triangle and the apex toward which it points4. He makes her a symbol: the courtesan condenses wealth, the commodity and the surplus value extorted over centuries, even millennia. She thus stands for the enjoyment of power, or the instrument of that enjoyment567. He concludes that "Gabrielle belongs to us too"8. In his sessions on Nerval's *Angélique*, he connects her to the places in the story: the château of Chaalis and Senlis, where her love affair with Henri IV is said to have been sheltered910. He comes back to this motif in other sessions, on money and labour, on Mozart and on worldliness in Clouscard.

1. 1#2 Rousseau, un monde qui commence20 Sept 2014 · 15:16
2. 2Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 1:46:39
3. 3Assemblée nationale24 Oct 2018 · 13:18
4. 4Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 1:58:10
5. 5Que faire ? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 13:02
6. 6#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:09:58
7. 7Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 1:19:34
8. 8Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 219 Jun 2016 · 7:12
9. 9#4.2 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Nov 2017 · 52:11
10. 10#4.3 Angélique (de Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:24:56

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.