This article, in ruminating Clovis and his kingdom, attempts to survey how they were configured as source of French identity from the Middle Ages to the present. After the fall of the empire, King Clovis conquered most of the Gallia and accepted Catholic Christianity. In the second half of the 9th century, the annexation of the archbishopric of Reims to the Western Francia and the invention of his myth by Archbishop Hincmar made Clovis closer to the history of France. In particular, at the time of the first Capetians, marked by weak royalty, many legends and myths were invented and, with dynasty of Valois and the Hundred Years War, much amplified. However, after the French Revolution, he became a symbol of royalists and clericalists, and also of the conservative right at present. It is necessary to reinterpret him historically.