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de pierres sur lesquels ils plantaient des croix aussitôt qu'ils découvraient le lieu de dévotion où ils allaient en pèlerinage Or, comme ces Mont-Joyes étaient destinés à marquer les chemins, de même, quand nos rois eurent pris Saint-Denis pour protecteur du royaume, et sa bannière ou l'oriflamme pour bannière de dévotion dans les armées, cette bannière devint le Mont-Joye qui réglait la marche de l'armée Il est bon aussi d'observer que ce cri de guerre n'a été introduit dans nos armées que vers le règne de Louis-le-Gros, qui, ayant réuni en sa personne le comté de Vexin à la couronne, devint avoué de l'église de Saint-Denis, en prit la bannière, de laquelle est venu le cri d'armes.
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Saint-Allais 1816: Ce qu'on a de plus sensé sur cette matière se réduit à remarquer qu'on appelait autrefois Mont-Joye un monceau de pierres entassées pour marquer les chemins ; sur quoi le Cardinal Huguet de Saint-Cher rapporte la coutume des pèlerins, qui faisaient des Mont-Joyes de monceaux
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when congregating in the woods of Paris. This was not based in pious or monarchical motivations that it may have been in the Middle Ages. Instead Bataille championed another, more archaic and impious version that was personified by
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Additional etymological theories exist which do not connect the term "montjoie" to the traditional explanation of the Oriflamme.
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The term has been sometimes associated with the royalist right-wing in France. In June 2021, French president
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believed it was in reference of the martyrdom of Saint Denis of Paris, which he claimed was associated with a
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that it was a place warriors gathered for combat. "Montjoie" has also been proposed as being derived from a
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who according to Bataille was the very incarnation of the feudal principle of expenditure.
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in a sense like "hold the line!". It has alternatively been proposed as deriving from
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was slapped in the face by a man who shouted the motto. French legislator
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of the term "Montjoie" is overall uncertain. It is first attested in
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used throughout signifies the standard symbol of terms created by
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suggested it originated in a term for marking stones or
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Whilst "Saint Denis" undoubtedly refers to the ancient
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