" In a letter addressed to Father Mersenne on April 15 1630, Descartes justified his belief in the intangibility of mathematical truths in the following terms : " It is God who has established these laws in nature, just as a king establishes laws in his kingdom (...) You will be told that if God has established these truths, he could change them as a king makes his laws ; to which you must reply that yes if his will can change. - But I understand them as eternal and immutable. - And I judge God in the same way (1). These few lines shed light on the many facets - theological, juridical and epistemological - of sovereignty, whose genealogy must be traced to understand its place in Gaul's work .
Supiot A., " Aux origines des États : la souveraineté de la limite. La geste gaullienne à la lumière de l'histoire des institutions ", Revue Défense Nationale, Février 2022, n° 847, p. 30-38.
