Le mythe d’Étienne Marcel Les interprétations controversées du meurtre d’Étienne Marcel le 31 juillet 1358, de la fin du xviii^e siècle au début du xxi^e siècle

There are numerous analogies between the heights of the revolts in Paris of 1356-1358 and the French Revolution. These similarities have meant that, throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth, French historiography has reconfigured the provost of Paris, so that he sometimes metamorphoses into a Danton, and sometimes into a Robespierre of the Middle Ages. The article analyzes the stakes at play in the controversial rewriting of this crucial episode in the history of Paris.