Extrait: ...singularites inouies, decouvertes recemment au-dela de l'Atlantique par les Espagnols et les Portugais, avaient etrangement aiguise l'appetit. Tout rayonnant de gloire, de luxe, d'eclat, le siecle s'y pretait. Les pompes feeriques du Champ du Drap-d'Or ne sont qu'un echantillon du faste qui regnait en maitre a cette epoque. Nos incursions en Italie, nos rapports avec l'Orient avaient raffine, outre mesure, chez nous le gout de la magnificence. Beau cavalier, d'une elegance innee, mais ostentatoire, le roi ...
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Extrait: ...singularites inouies, decouvertes recemment au-dela de l'Atlantique par les Espagnols et les Portugais, avaient etrangement aiguise l'appetit. Tout rayonnant de gloire, de luxe, d'eclat, le siecle s'y pretait. Les pompes feeriques du Champ du Drap-d'Or ne sont qu'un echantillon du faste qui regnait en maitre a cette epoque. Nos incursions en Italie, nos rapports avec l'Orient avaient raffine, outre mesure, chez nous le gout de la magnificence. Beau cavalier, d'une elegance innee, mais ostentatoire, le roi donnait l'exemple; la cour suivait; et la ville, ne voulant pas rester trop en arriere, entrainait jusqu'a la campagne. Prodigues etaient les depenses, tout naturellement. Pour y subvenir, les ressources nationales devenaient insuffisantes. Il fallait donc s'adresser a l'etranger, a l'inconnu. Des Grandes-Indes on faisait des recits fabuleux. L'or, l'ivoire, les pierreries, les etoffes precieuses, les epices, tout ce qui constitue la delicatesse de la vie abondait. On y marchait de surprise en surprise, d'enchantement en enchantement. Comparee a ces regions fortunees, l'Europe etait une terre sterile, depourvue, traitee en paria par la nature. Ne devait-on pas conquerir des contrees aussi injustement privilegiees, ou, pour le moins, les debarrasser du genant fardeau de leur superflu? Le mobile des explorations d'outre-mer est la. Par surcroit de charite, la religion vint appuyer d'un pretexte sacro-saint ce desir de spoliation. Mais c'est le butin qu'on voulait, c'est le butin qu'on exigea des vaincus. Longue, perilleuse, cependant, se montrait la traversee de l'Europe aux Indes orientales. La seule route pour nous etait celle du cap de Bonne-Esperance. Quel chemin! Colomb pensa qu'il y pourrait aller eu cinglant a l'ouest, en la mer Atlantique. Parvenu dans le golfe du Mexique, il se crut aux confins de l'Asie. Ses compagnons, ses successeurs caresserent la meme erreur. Vasco Nunez qui, ...
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