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Bow to what you burned, burn what you worshiped

Clovis I

Phraseologism: Bow to what you burned, burn what you worshipped.

Meaning: About the difficult parting with the past, about changing beliefs, principles, about renegade (ironic).

Origin: From the legend about the founder of the Frankish state, King Clovis (c. 466-511), who converted to Christianity in 496. This act of the king gave rise to the legend that the king, being on the verge of defeat in the battle of Tolbiac, prayed in despair to the "god of Clotilde" (his wife Clotilde was already a Christian, although he himself remained a pagan). Having won this battle, the king finally believed in Christ and accepted the Christian faith. And when the archbishop of Reims Remigius (c. 440-533) performed the rite of baptism over the king, he, according to this legend, said to Clovis: Bow down to what you burned, and burn what you worshiped. This legend was set forth by the Bishop of Tours (the historical region of Gaul in France) and the historian Gregory of Tours (c. 540 - c. 594) in his work (book 2, ch. 21) "History of the Franks" (before 591, first edition 1522 ), which still serves as the main source on the history of the Frankish state of the 1795th-1856th centuries. So, on the basis of this work, the famous French historian Augustin Thierry (1840-1859) wrote his book Tales from the Merovingian Times (1818), which was a huge success in France, and was also well known in Russia. Subsequently, the legend of the baptism of King Clovis was invariably present in every book on the history of France. In Russia, the expression became especially popular after the story "The Noble Nest" (1883) by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (25-1847) was published. There, one of her heroes (Mikhalevich) reads poetry (ch. XNUMX), written for the novel by Turgenev himself: “I gave myself up to new feelings with all my heart. / Like a child, I became a soul, / And I burned everything that I worshiped, / Bowed everything that was burned. But this idea was often encountered in Russian literature before, for example, in the article "A Look at Russian Literature after the Death of Pushkin" (XNUMX) by the poet Pyotr Vyazemsky. Referring to the state of affairs in French literature in it, he writes that Sainte-Beuve was at one time an admirer of Chateaubriand, but then, having changed his views, he published a book directed against his recent idol. This Russian poet comments as follows: "He burned what he adored before." P. A. Vyazemsky and I. S. Turgenev used the same source of French origin, and the difference between their versions is explained by the fact that they translated the French verb adorer (to adore, worship) differently, which is quite possible due to its ambiguity.

Random phraseology:

Ours is abroad.

Meaning:

About the behavior of Russian tourists abroad (jokingly-iron.).

Origin:

The title of a collection of humorous stories (1890) by humorist and playwright Nikolai Alexandrovich Leikin (1841-1906). publisher of the magazine "Shards", where the young A.P. Chekhov collaborated. This collection contains stories that represent the customs of the Russian merchant class. A telegram sent by a company of Leykin travelers from Paris to Moscow gives an idea of how "ours" got acquainted with foreign countries: "At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a Russian samovar was smoking! .."

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