Misplaced Pages

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Bélisaire" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Bélisaire is a banned 1767 French novel on the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius by Jean-François Marmontel. It popularised the apocryphal tale of his being reduced to beggary by Justinian I despite his great services to the empire, citing it as an example of the ingratitude of those in power towards their faithful servants and indicting the French king Louis XV by proxy as another such ungrateful monarch.

External links

• Bélisaire on Gallica

This article about an 18th century novel is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a historical novel is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

• v
• t
• e

• 1767 novels
• 18th-century French novels
• French historical novels
• Novels set in the 6th century
• Novels set in the Byzantine Empire
• Novels set in the Middle Ages
• Cultural depictions of Belisarius
• Louis XV
• 18th-century novel stubs
• Historical novel stubs