What does the slogan “Montjoie Saint-Denis”, shouted by the attacker, refer to?

War cry of the kings of France in the Middle Ages, “Montjoie, Saint-Denis” became a political rallying word with the birth of royalism in 1789. Michel-Ange Mangourit placed it at the head of his newspaper “Le Héraut de la Nation” , at the time of the opening of the Estates General. https://t.co/ussiM0aH5M pic.twitter.com/7V2G2n338i

– Paul Chopelin (@ChopelinP) June 8, 2021

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In the 19th century, it was rediscovered and reinvented. The historian Jules Michelet thus makes it “the cry of France”. More recently, the expression was popularized by the film “The Visitors” (1993). The knight Godefroy de Montmirail, played by Jean Reno, launches “Montjoie Saint-Denis, that passes away if I weaken”, by charging gendarmes.

Moreover for Loïc Dauriac, one of the friends of the aggressor, we must see in the slogan shouted by Damien T. before the slap a simple reference to the film of Jean-Marie Poiré.

A politician attacked in 2018

This is not the first time that we hear “Montjoie Saint-Denis” in the political sphere. In 2018, already, the deputy La France Insoumise Éric Coquerel had been entarted by three students, members of Action Française, to the cry of “Montjoie Saint-Denis! “. The Ile-de-France federation of the far-right nationalist and royalist group then claimed the action on social networks.

“This slogan is that of the royalist extreme right. Exactly what Papacito is [NDLR : un YouTubeur d’extrême droite]. That’s it, do you take extreme right-wing violence seriously now? In solidarity with the President, ”the MP tweeted after the slap in the face of the president.