Jacques de Molay is the last Grand Master of the Templars. He is more of a soldier than a politician, which will not be without consequences in the fall of the Order. Clumsily, the Templars will display their wealth, while they will be reproached for not having been able to keep the Holy Land, by insinuating that it had become too poor for them. In 1306, at the request of Pope Clement V, who planned to make the Templars a pontifical militia, the headquarters of the Temple was transferred to Paris. Philippe le Bel who, from the Louvre palace, has a view of the keep of the Temple, prepares his fall. Arrested in 1307, and burned in 1314, Molay is famous for the curse he cast on the Capetians, making them:"cursed kings" according to Maurice Druon's book.
Under the Restoration, from 1816, King Louis XVIII commissioned a dozen paintings representing the great leaders of the revolt Vendée who in 1793 took the lead of a makeshift army made up of peasants to defend the Faith and the king. It is indeed the image of an active resistance, with its martyrdom