Invasions des Sarrazins en France et de France en Savoie, en Piémont et dans la Suisse, pendant les 8e, 9e et 10e siècles de notre ère

The book opens a window onto a fragmented early‑medieval France, a patchwork of Frankish realms, lingering Visigothic enclaves and restless borderlands. From the early eighth century, waves of Saracen raiders swept across the region, bringing unfamiliar tongues, faiths and customs that tested the resilience of local institutions. Against this backdrop the author asks what these incursions meant for a people striving to preserve their worship, their land and their emerging sense of nation.

Drawing on both Christian chroniclers and later Arabic accounts, the study weaves together contrasting perspectives to sketch a fuller picture of the invaders’ origins, motivations and the cultural ripples they left behind. It highlights how the repeated clashes reshaped frontiers in France, Savoy, Piedmont and Switzerland, and how the lingering traces of these encounters still echo in the historical record. Listeners will come away with a nuanced sense of a turbulent era where conflict and exchange walked side by side.