Illustrer l’actualité avec des images d’un passé réel ou imaginaire. Les relations texte-images dans les occasionnels des règnes de Charles VIII à François Ier

From the 1480s onwards, printers began publishing occasional news. These are non-periodic printed that provided news about political et military events. They gave to see and read the facts et gestures of the kings who fought in the Italian wars and who were staged in the royal ceremonies of power. To compose these booklets, printers are accustomed to reusing engravings from previous publications, such as news pamphlets or historical chronicles and chivalry novels. The circulation of images induces a certain connection between history and fiction and establishes analogies between the actions of the living king (which the brochures give to read) and the previous kings and legendary knights (which they give to see). Based on selected examples from the reigns of Charles VIII to Francis I, this article aims to understand the effects that the reuse of images has on the meaning of the news broadcast and on the political imaginary that is instilled in the minds of readers