{"id":261,"date":"2022-08-02T20:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanmaurice-demontremy.com\/?page_id=261"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:34:35","slug":"rance-le-soleil-noir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jeanmaurice-demontremy.com\/index.php\/rance-le-soleil-noir\/","title":{"rendered":"RANC\u00c9, LE SOLEIL NOIR"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Mai 1664 : le jeune Louis XIV, v\u00eatu d’or et de feu, donne \u00e0 Versailles des f\u00eates tr\u00e8s fastueuses. Quelques semaines plus tard, \u00e0 la Trappe, dans le Perche, le riche et jeune abb\u00e9 de Ranc\u00e9 renonce \u00e0 tous ses biens pour se consacrer \u00e0 l’aust\u00e9rit\u00e9 la plus extr\u00eame et au silence de son monast\u00e8re. Un Soleil noir r\u00e9pond au roi Soleil.
Armand-Jean Bouthillier de Ranc\u00e9 (1626- 1700) est issu d’une famille qui doit \u00e0 Richelieu fortune et influence. Filleul de l’Homme Rouge, dont il porte le pr\u00e9nom, le voici pourvu d\u00e8s ses 11 ans d’abbayes et de b\u00e9n\u00e9fices consid\u00e9rables. Un de ses oncles, Claude Bouthillier avait \u00e9t\u00e9 surintendant aux Finances de Louis XIII et l\u2019un de ses cousins, L\u00e9on Bouthillier de Chavigny, secr\u00e9taire d\u2019Etat aux Affaires \u00e9trang\u00e8res. Armand-Jean succ\u00e8dera, pense-t-on, \u00e0 un autre de ses oncles, Victor Bouthillier, archev\u00eaque du prestigieux dioc\u00e8se de Tours.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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La jeunesse d\u2019Armand-Jean se d\u00e9roule dans le Paris aristocratique de la Fronde. Proche de l’\u00e9bouriffant cardinal de Retz, le jeune pr\u00eatre brille aussi bien dans les salons qu’\u00e0 l’Assembl\u00e9e du Clerg\u00e9. Il passe pour l’amant ou l’ami de c\u0153ur de l’une des frondeuses les plus en vue : Marie, duchesse de Rohan-Montbazon, \u00ab la plus belle du monde \u00bb, de quinze ans son a\u00een\u00e9e. Mais le 28 avril 1657 Marie meurt d’une soudaine \u00ab fi\u00e8vre pourpre \u00bb. Les circonstances dramatiques de son agonie et de sa mise en bi\u00e8re bouleversent Armand-Jean. Il quitte Paris, se retire dans son domaine de V\u00e9retz, en Touraine, je\u00fbne, lit, m\u00e9dite, vend tous ses biens, devient moine. Sa l\u00e9gende commence.

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Portrait de Ranc\u00e9 par Hyacinthe Rigaud (1697)<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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La premi\u00e8re version de ce livre, \u00e9dit\u00e9e par Perrin en 2006, a re\u00e7u le prix Combourg-Chateaubriand 2007. Elle a \u00e9t\u00e9 substantiellement revue, corrig\u00e9e et augment\u00e9e pour aboutir \u00e0 une deuxi\u00e8me version, d\u00e9finitive, parue en 2022 (Editions du Condottiere). Mon travail sur Ranc\u00e9 – compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par une \u00e9dition pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e et annot\u00e9e des Relations de la mort quelques religieux de l’abbaye de la Trappe<\/a><\/i><\/b> – m’aura occup\u00e9 pr\u00e8s d’un quart de si\u00e8cle comme je l’explique dans Vingt-six<\/b> ans<\/b> avec<\/b> Ranc\u00e9<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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