No discussion of the historical counter-claims that Henry’s Walk to Canossa was a “brilliant masterstroke” to rescue himself from political disaster, rather than a humiliating nadir?

A teaser for what's to come:

I'm determined to release it while the year still ends with "5". I'm nearing the end, but there's a section near the beginning that I still think is based on bad sourcing — if I can only find the correct sources in time.

Plus the many hours needed to record and edit. We'll see.

(My written French is mediocre; my usual workflow when translating French-language PDFs is to batch-paste it into Google Translate, skim its English translation for relevant material, then more deliberately translate those passages for citation.)

(One problem with researching this woman is Louis-Michel le Peletier, Marquis de Saint-Fargeau, is SO famous that googling anyone else in the family is almost impossible.)

The answer may be very easy here — this SEEMS like it should be a very easy person to find. But I'm striking out; maybe one of you can help?

Unfortunately extensive googling (well over 100 open tabs) has utterly failed to find her. Louis-Michel le Peletier's brothers are public knowledge but none of them (that I've found) are listed as marrying an Aglaé-Isidore Leclerc. Family genealogy pages are wildly inconsistent.

1. She was born Aglaé-Isidore Leclerc, and married a Lepelletier (often rendered as "Le Peletier" or "Le Pelletier")
2. Her mother was the daughter of the colonist Jean-Joseph Peyrac, and married a Leclerc
3. She was the sister-in-law of the famous revolutionary Louis-Michel le Peletier

Fortunately books of this type that skip over the Restoration are no longer dead to me.

Alas, that's a bit TOO far out of my field for me to have anything on hand.

I do know there was a fairly robust literary tradition in the 16th/18th centuries, purporting to find the roots of French liberties in the ancient tribal days. So it’s definitely possible!

I think that might be a question more for 1791, when the title was first revived, rather than 1830 when it was brought back.