Florimond Robertet au regard de sa collection, dans le reliquaire du discours

Florimond Robertet was Treasurer of Francis I. Was Florimond Robertet’s collection of curiosities worth of a king? The 1650 inventory, supposedly written by his widow in 1532, testifies to an astonishing display of rhetoric, so that objects, considered as if they were relics, tell a tale of their owner while they also create a fictitious 16th century.