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L a fameuse légende des cages de fer date de la fin de l'époque moderne. A cette époque, l'on en retrouva plusieurs dans le château de Loches, qui était une des résidences de Louis XI. Certaines mesuraient entre deux et trois mètres sur toutes les faces, mais d'autres, plus petites (surnommées les fillettes .), empêchaient le détenu ...
- Dungeon Or Attic?
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- Louis and His Fillettes
This tower dates back to the 15th century. In a dark cellar, we find the jail. In middle of the staircase, we can see a kind of tunnel: the legend says king Louis XI liked to come here, to spy on his prisoners… But in fact, we don’t know if this room is a jail or an attic.
On the walls, we can see here graffiti. Prisoners (Catholics or Protestants?) drew them in the 16th century, during wars of Religion... characters wear typical clothes from Henri III’s reign! We have a guard, at the entrance, with a halbert (the only character in profile), fighting soldiers, others holding guns… Look at those details! Those life-si...
King of France Louis XI transformed the place into a famous jail, popularized by his famous fillettes: the tradition used to say they were tiny wooden cages. But not at all! The fillettes(″little girls″) were only heavy chains shacking prisoners’ hands and feet...
Louis XI, fils de Charles VII, est un grand roi qui est souvent mal connu. Il a suscité des opinions contradictoires, plutôt défavorable envers l’homme, mais élogieuses quant à l’œuvre accomplie. Si on le disait cruel, il s’avère cependant que Louis XI n’était pas pire que la plupart des rois de cette triste époque.
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Mar 22, 2024 · Louis XI (born July 3, 1423, Bourges, Fr.—died Aug. 30, 1483, Plessis-les-Tours) was the king of France (1461–83) of the House of Valois who continued the work of his father, Charles VII, in strengthening and unifying France after the Hundred Years’ War.
The Dauphin Louis was born about three o’clock in the afternoon on July 3, 1423 at Bourges. He was the son of Charles VII, King of France and Marie of Anjou. Due to the weakness of his father’s hold on the kingdom of France, there was internal strife at the time of Louis’ birth and Bourges was threatened.
His (controversial) reputation for being cruel to his enemies is associated with the symbol of iron cages ("the king's little girls" were in fact the shackles around the prisoners' necks), which popular imagery has often placed in the Loches keep.
The occasion of his liberty was the joyous passage through Meung of the new King, Louis XI, whose reign was to change the France in which Villon had pursued his rogue’s career out of all recognition. In Michelet’s words, Louis was “possessed with the demon of the future”.
