Abstract
Can the political love of the late Middle Ages only be understood in opposition to the disenchantment of modernity ? This final session focuses onthe figure of Marguerite de Navarre, based on Lucien Febvre's Amour sacré, amour profane (1944). Rejecting what he called " the hypothesis of duplicity ", the historian tried to understand how this queen could have been the author of both the Miroir de l'âme pécheresse and theHeptaméron, and what this apparent contradiction revealed about the political imaginary of love before 1550. When the poets of what was not yet known as the " Pléiade " paid tribute to Ronsard, they were no longer exalting the vehemence of love, but rather the multiplicity of the Amours sung by Ronsard. And so we move from the politics of love to the poetics of love.