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Article: Addressing la ville des dieux: entry ceremonies and urban audiences in seventeenth-century Dijon.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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On 31 January 1629, Louis XIII made his royal entry into Dijon, the capital of Burgundy, a highly-sensitive province on France's eastern frontier. Although the city had only been given three weeks, rather than the months that were usually allowed to prepare the elaborate and expensive ceremony, Louis's entry was on the whole typical of late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century French entrees royales et princieres. The allegorical archways along the procession route, designed and erected by the city government, employed classical themes and allegories to extol Louis's heroic virtues, comparing him alternately with Apollo and Caesar Augustus. The ceremony also ...