Regional history
The comic book series telling the saga of Greater Geneva is enriched by a third volume
The new opus from the illustrated children’s collection for children has just been published. “The last king of the lake” looks at a pivotal period in the history of the Franco-Valdo-Geneva region.
Cover of volume III. The book paints the portrait of King Rodolphe III and the attachment of the current Franco-Valdo-Geneva region to the Holy Roman Empire around the year 1000 AD.
Lydie Meynet
Volume III of the series of illustrated children’s books containing the history of Greater Geneva has just been released. “”The last king of the lake “this is its title, is published by future anterior, based in Monthey (VS). Like the two previous volumes, the texts and the drawings are signed by the Haut-Savoyarde Lydie Meynet, professor of history in Switzerland and France.
The new opus paints the portrait of King Rodolphe III who, around the year 1000 AD, led a kingdom that was built around Lake Geneva. The era is pivotal in the history of the current Franco-Valdo-Geneva region. It is indeed at this moment that she was attached to the Holy German Roman Empire. This integration will mark the fate of our territory for several centuries.
As a reminder, the tome I was published in September 2021. Entitled “Julius Caesar and the Helvetians”, he deals with the war of Gaul, in iis century BC. It was during this conflict, opposing Celts and Roman, that Geneva (then territory of the Gallic people of Allobroges) was mentioned for the first time in history.
Volume I.
Lydie Meynet
The tome II was published in February 2023. Under the title “Barbarians in the land of fir trees” (The Latin name of Savoy, Sapaudia, means “country of fir trees”), it approaches the Burgonde era of the Ve a wee centuries of our era. He returns in particular to the fratricidal epic of the Burgonde royal family (which inspired the famous Nibelungen legend), of which the Kingdom of Burgondia was in Geneva.
Coverage of volume II.
Lydie Meynet
Like the first two volumes, volume III, “the last king of the lake”, has as a common thread the adventures of a young historian apprentice, symbolically named Geneviève, who also serves as a link between each opus. The new issue ends with an initiation to medieval paleography, the art of illumination and heraldry.
Questioned by us in 2023, Lydie Meynet explains that it is part of the observation that, “on both sides of the Franco-Swiss border, we teach the national history of our respective countries, but not the history of our common region. The only event that we remember is theEscalade (Editor’s note: 1602).»
Lydie Meynet, author and illustrator of the series, here during the publication of volume I.
Lucien fortunate
The one for whom “the border exists but is relative” adds wanting to “contribute to creating a common identity and strengthening social cohesion, to federate the populations of Greater Geneva”.
The collection is mainly intended for children. On the French side of Greater Geneva, nearly 5,000 copies of volume III were distributed in the primary schools of the 117 municipalities of French Genevans, and funded by the French Metropolitan Pole French (PMGF).
The series is planned in six volumes, three therefore remain to be published.
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