{"id":22,"date":"2026-01-21T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brignais.wasmer.app\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-02-04T17:15:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:15:04","slug":"la-bataille-des-tard-venus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/?page_id=22","title":{"rendered":"La bataille des Tard-Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 6 April 1362, Brignais was the site of one of the most significant military defeats of royal authority during the Hundred Years\u2019 War. Here, the Tard-Venus, bands of mercenaries formed after the Treaty of Br\u00e9tigny (1360), defeated the army of King Jean II \u201cthe Good\u201d, commanded by Jacques de Bourbon, Count of La Marche, who was mortally wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by Petit Meschin and Seguin de Badefol, these mercenary companies ravaged large parts of France, from Burgundy to Languedoc. Their victory at Brignais exposed the vulnerability of royal forces and left a lasting mark on regional memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1991, artist Jean-Paul Brochot created the installation <em>Arr\u00eat sur images<\/em> (\u201cFreeze-Frame\u201d), commemorating this pivotal event.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"871\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-of-Brignais.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" style=\"width:auto;height:750px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-of-Brignais.jpg 871w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-of-Brignais-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-of-Brignais-768x882.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 871px) 100vw, 871px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-Map.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-Map.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-Map-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Battle-Map-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>The site of the battle corresponds to the area now occupied by Le Briscope Cultural Center, at<br>5 Rue M\u00e8re \u00c9lise Rivet, 69530 Brignais<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Le-Briscope.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Le-Briscope.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Le-Briscope-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Le-Briscope-768x335.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 April 1362, Brignais was the site of one of the most significant military defeats of royal authority during the Hundred Years\u2019 War. Here, the Tard-Venus, bands of mercenaries formed after the Treaty of Br\u00e9tigny (1360), defeated the army of King Jean II \u201cthe Good\u201d, commanded by Jacques de Bourbon, Count of La Marche, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brignaisguide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}