Abstract
An historian of the wonders and massacres of the Merovingian Gaul, Gregoire de Tours (a538-a594) is the author of a basic work both about the history of France and of the Jews in France. This work met with different and even divergent interpretations of the place and the role of the Jews in Gaul, and of their relations with the Christians during the Merovingian period. This study had quite another viewpoint and follows the way marked out by Georges Duby thirty years ago when he emphasized “the need to observe the observant himself, to get acquainted with his beliefs, his fears, to tell the history of historians”. Dealing with the work of Gregoire de Tours this reasoning allows to better assessment of the importance of his « prejudices », of his “interests” according to Rousseau’s saying, that is to say his ideology and his singular aims in his historical views about the Jews : disfavourable words, guided by his ambition to reach sanctity.
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