Europe 1 Studio SEASON 2021 - 202 207h00, October 25, 2021

On each of his portraits, Cardinal Dubois sketches a slight smile tinged with mischief… The worst rumors have run about him, but are they founded?

In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach seeks to discover who Guillaume Dubois, Principal Minister of the Regent Philippe d'Orléans, really was.

Poisoner, fornicator, manipulator ... The most malicious rumors are spread about Guillaume Dubois, minister of Philippe d'Orléans, regent of the kingdom of France during the minority of Louis XV.

In this new episode of the Europe 1 Studio podcast "At the heart of History", Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach paints a more nuanced portrait of this ambitious and complex being. 

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Writing and presentation: Clémentine Portier-Kaltenbach

Production: Timothée Magot

Director: Oscar Vataire 

Distribution and editing: Clémence Olivier with Salomé Journo

Graphics: Sidonie Mangin

Bibliography: 

The Regent and Cardinal Dubois, The Art of Ambiguity

, Pierre Thomas

The orgies of the Regency: memoirs of Cardinal Dubois, Paul Lacroix

Cardinal Dubois and the regency of Philippe d'Orléans: the cardinals-ministers, 

M. Capefigue, 1861 

Memoirs, Monsieur le Duc de Saint Simon

Cardinal Dubois 1656-1723, Guy Chaussinand Nogaret, Perrin, 2000