1- Alexander the Great : "Is there no world left for me to conquer ?"

 

2- Caesar : "He who wants peace prepares for war".

 

3- du Guesclin : "Courage gives what beauty refuses".

 

4- Crusades : "When, in the last days of June 1095, Pope Urban II passed from Italy to France to preach the first crusade, no one yet suspected the purpose of his journey..." René Grousset, L'épopée des croisades (1926).

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"In the Middle Ages, the masons and stonemasons were known as the "Lodgers of the Good Lord", the "Workers of Notre-Dame" and the "Workers of St Peter". Their brotherhood, which is one of the oldest, has a rich tradition born in the dust of sacred building sites, while the arches of cathedrals were being built. It is through the practice of the craft, the work on the material and the use of the tool that the work will be achieved. The worker is a creator, he pursues the work of God and is initiated spiritually as he learns his art. There is no distinction between art and craft, worker and artisan."

Jean-François Blondel, Mystique des tailleurs de pierre.

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